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Decoded: Dan Brown's Lost Symbol

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What is a Freemason? Who are they and what are they about?

In this roller coaster of a film, Tony Robinson’s hopes for hidden truths are constantly raised and dashed as he investigates the Masonic influence on past and present, and delves into the truth of their rituals and secrets. While the science and the monuments may be real, Tony asks if they are quite what Dan Brown claims. Dan Brown’s latest novel The Lost Symbol is a bestseller, with over one million copies sold on the first day of release. Venturing forth from his own Chamber of Reflection with its skull and cross bones, scythe and sulphur, Tony explores the dark and sinister world of Freemasons, alchemists, strange symbols, bizarre rituals and secret initiation rites on which the book depends. Tony travels back and forth between Washington, Philadelphia, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and London in a bid to answer all the puzzling questions thrown up by the plot.

Programme Information

  • Genre: Factual

  • Subgenre: Documentary Special

  • Producers: WILDFIRE TELEVISION

  • Broadcaster: Channel 4 UK

  • Duration: 1 x 60'

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