The hour-long programme featured Stephanie Leonidas and Reece Ritchie as individuals of the Bronze Age civilization.

[1] With voiceover from Tom Conti, the film tells the story of Yishharu, an apprentice bull-leaper who has recently returned to Thera from Crete with his new wife, Pinaruti.

[1] Over the course of the story, the volcano erupts, throwing out ash and molten lava, and destroying the island with pyroclastic flows.

[citation needed] Zoe Williams, writing for The Guardian said: "The heavy-handed doomsday lighting made it look like the build-up to a joke on a Pot Noodle ad.

[2] An equally unfavourable review in The Independent suggested: "The final explosion has been calculated to have been 40,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, and it would have been a great mercy if it had occurred 50 minutes earlier in Atlantis.