Category Archives: Broadcasting

Dundrum: My Final Broadcast Time Team

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

Sob, sob. I said ‘broadcast’ because the last one we filmed was Brancaster. So the future will be documentaries and for these we’ll move to a later slot, usually around nine o’clock. There’ll be two more ‘as live’ excavations after … Continue reading →

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‘Making History’, Radio 4: Your Hero Rides Again

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

I love doing radio and of course Radio 4 is la crème de la crème. There’s nothing else remotely like it anywhere in the world. And rather like our Town and Country Planning Laws (see The Making, p. 573), ‘we … Continue reading →

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Time Team Series 20, My Fourth Episode: Coniston Copper Mines

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

The film to be shown this coming Sunday (February 3rd) at 4.20 (yes, that’s 1620 hours) was filmed high in the Cumbrian Fells, within the shadow of the Old Man of Coniston. We actually did the filming in the last … Continue reading →

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Media Luvvies Are So Sad

Posted on January 27, 2013 by

I can’t believe it. Yesterday evening I attended the party to celebrate the end of Time Team and its twenty years of broadcasting history. And I make no apologies – it has been a wonderful success. As an archaeologist, if … Continue reading →

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Time Team Series 20, episode 3, Henham Hall, Suffolk: a place with Latitude

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Some readers of this blog may have been to the Latitude music festival, which is held every summer in the park of Henham Hall, near Southwold, just back from the Suffolk coast. I haven’t been to the festival myself, but … Continue reading →

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Time Team: The 20th Series, Second Episode: Rural Cardiff

Posted on January 12, 2013 by

Whaat? Rural Cardiff??? Yes, that’s what I said. And I’ll repeat: Rural Cardiff. We filmed last April and of course it rained. And rained. We’d just finished lambing, so I wasn’t particularly looking forward to what I’d been told would … Continue reading →

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Time Team: The 20th Series Starts next Sunday – And We’re Going Down with a Pang … or should that be BANG!

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

The first episode of the 20th, and last, Time Team series is going to be screened next Sunday, January 6th at 5.25 on Channel 4. As is the usual practice of broadcasters, they’re going to be showing the best one … Continue reading →

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Flag Fen, 30 years on

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

We discovered the extraordinary Bronze Age site at Flag Fen, Peterborough, exactly 30 years ago. To be honest I’m not certain of the precise date, but I think it was around the 3rd, or 4th of November, 1982. I’ve described … Continue reading →

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Time Team. The Great War: the great leveller

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

Next Sunday is Remembrance Sunday: 11/11/12. At 4.40 in the afternoon Channel  4 will be broadcasting the programme we filmed at the Machine Gun Corps training camp at Belton Park, just outside Grantham, Lincolnshire. I’m not sure how this will … Continue reading →

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Time Team: the End of the Road

Posted on October 20, 2012 by

Today Channel Four announced that Time Team would cease to be broadcast after Series 20, which goes out early next year. So what went right? How come we managed to keep a big-budget TV series on the nation’s free-view screens … Continue reading →

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