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Tag Archives: Time Team
Dundrum: My Final Broadcast Time Team
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
Posted in books, Broadcasting, Time Team
Tagged Alan Cadbury, Dundrum Castle, Francis Pryor, Time Team, Unbound
Time Team Series 20, My Fourth Episode: Coniston Copper Mines
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
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team
Tagged archaeology, coniston, copper mine, Francis Pryor, Time Team
Media Luvvies Are So Sad
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
Posted in Broadcasting, Time Team, Tirades
Tagged Channel 4, Time Team
Time Team Series 20, episode 3, Henham Hall, Suffolk: a place with Latitude
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
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team
Tagged cork oak, country houses, Francis Pryor, Hektor Rous, Henham Hall, Henham Park, Latitude, Time Team
Time Team: The 20th Series, Second Episode: Rural Cardiff
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
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team
Tagged Caerau, Cardiff, Ely, hillfort, Iron Age, Time Team
Time Team: The 20th Series Starts next Sunday – And We’re Going Down with a Pang … or should that be BANG!
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
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting
Tagged Brancaster, David Gurney, Francis Pryor, Phil Harding, Roman fort, Romans, Time Team
Time Team. The Great War: the great leveller
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
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, History, In the Long Run, Time Team
Tagged Belton House, Francis Pryor, Time Team, World War I
Time Team: the End of the Road
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
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team
Tagged cancelled, Channel 4, Francis Pryor, Maisie Taylor, Tim Taylor, Time Team, Time Team cancelled
Coma, Semi-Coma – Full Stop.
It has been an exhausting series of Time Team. The sites have been demanding and as for the weather, well, the least said the better. I think it was at the Machine Gun Corps camp that Raksha told me about … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Farming, Gardening, humour, Time Team
Tagged Francis Pryor, gardening, Maisie Taylor, Raksha Dave, sheep, sheep farming, Time Team
Travel: a Cure for Olympic Flatulence
If I had five pounds for every person I’ve met who’s been complaining about belches and farts caused by sitting in front of the television hour after hour watching the Olympics, I’d be a rich man. Happily, while the rest … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, History, Landscape, Time Team
Tagged Avebury, Guardian, Maes Howe, Maiden Castle, The Ridgeway, Time Team
