By Alex Jee

One of the country's biggest and most famous homes is set to appear in a new TV programme on all things evil, mystical and ghostly.

The famous Knole House in Sevenoaks, situated in a 1,000-acre park of the same name, will feature in the first episode of 'Mystic Britain'.

The show, which will be aired at the end of this month, takes a humorous look through Britain's most mysterious sites.

In the episode, titled 'Witches and Demons', television and radio presenter Clive Anderson and his co-host, anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota, try to understand how evil transformed from insubstantial demons made of air into something very real and very human – witches.

As the house, which is now owned by the National Trust, is known to be one of King Henry VIII's favourite estates, Mary-Ann visits the site to talk to archaeologist James Wright about how much beliefs changed during the monarch's reign, and to look for evidence of witchcraft in the house itself.

They will have plenty of places to search, as rumour has it that Knole is a calendar house, with 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards.

'Mystic Britain' will be a 10-part series, in which Clive and Mary-Ann explain to viewers in layman’s terms the significance of ancient places and rituals across Britain.

During the series they will tell a number of tales with the help of scientists, archaeologists, and historians whose discoveries unearth what, and why, ancient Britons did in the name of their beliefs.

Future stories also include ‘Ice Age Shamens’, ‘The Medieval Undead’, ‘and ‘Bronze Age Mummies’.

The first episode will be aired on Tuesday April 30, at 8pm, on The Smithsonian channel, available on Sky channel 195, Freeview channel 99, Freesat channel 175 and Virgin Media channel 295.