Graham Hancock is a British author and former journalist, born in Edinburgh in 1950, best known for arguing that an advanced civilisation was lost at the end of the last Ice Age. Before writing books he reported for The Times, The Guardian and The Independent and was East Africa correspondent for The Economist. His books include Fingerprints of the Gods, Magicians of the Gods and America Before, and he presented the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse.
Brian Rose has interviewed Hancock five times on London Real between 2012 and 2022. They have talked about ayahuasca and consciousness, the war on drugs, his historical novel War God, his lost civilisation theory, the first people in the Americas and the reaction to Ancient Apocalypse.
Each interview is listed below in order with a short summary.
Ancient Apocalypse: The Most Dangerous Show On Netflix (2022). His most recent London Real interview, recorded after the Netflix series, with his whole argument and the backlash in one place. For his ideas on ayahuasca and consciousness, watch The Sacred Vine (2012).
Hancock’s central claim is that an advanced civilisation existed during the last Ice Age and was destroyed by a global cataclysm, leaving traces in later myths and monuments. Speaking in 2016, he called humanity “a species with amnesia”.
In his 2019 interview on America Before, he argued that people reached the Americas thousands of years earlier than the Clovis-first model held.
In 2012 and 2013 Hancock argued that adults should have sovereignty over their own consciousness, that the war on drugs is a war on consciousness, and, half seriously, that politicians should drink ayahuasca before taking office. His 2013 TEDx talk on the subject was moved off the TEDx YouTube channel after TED’s science board raised concerns.
His novel War God, discussed in his first two interviews, retells the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the fall of the Aztec empire, drawing on research he did for Fingerprints of the Gods.
A recurring theme is his clash with academic archaeology. In 2022 he described his frustration with “a single narrative” about the past.
Graham Hancock is a British author and former journalist, born in Edinburgh in 1950. He is best known for books such as Fingerprints of the Gods and the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse, which argue that an advanced Ice Age civilisation was lost.
Across five interviews from 2012 to 2022, Hancock talked about ayahuasca and consciousness, the war on drugs, his novel War God, his lost civilisation theory, the first people in the Americas and the reaction to Ancient Apocalypse.
Start with Ancient Apocalypse: The Most Dangerous Show On Netflix from 2022, his latest interview. For his views on ayahuasca, watch The Sacred Vine from 2012.
Five times between 2012 and 2022. Two short Success Secrets clips are taken from the 2016 and 2019 interviews.
Ancient Apocalypse is the Netflix series presented by Hancock, which sets out his argument that an advanced civilisation was lost at the end of the last Ice Age. He talked about the series and the reaction to it in his 2022 London Real interview.
Fingerprints of the Gods, published in 1995, is Hancock’s best-known book. It argues that ancient monuments and myths around the world point to a lost civilisation destroyed at the end of the last Ice Age. He returned to the idea in Magicians of the Gods in 2015.
Hancock has written and spoken about his own ayahuasca experiences and argues that adults should be free to explore their own consciousness. In his first London Real interview in 2012 he said politicians should drink ayahuasca before taking office.
Official site: grahamhancock.com
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