Category Archives: Broadcasting

The Camera That Hibernated for Over Two Years

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Francis Pryor

Anyone reading my last blog post must think me the unluckiest person alive. But what I have to report today is far more worrying, because I have recently discovered incontrovertible evidence that inanimate objects can come to life – and … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, My life, Time Team, Uncategorized | Tagged boots, cameras, coniston, copper mine, Italy, Otzi, Time Team, Tyrol | Leave a comment

Goodbye To All That

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Francis Pryor

Somehow the title of Robert Graves’ 1929 autobiographical masterpiece seems strangely relevant. Does it express regret, or inevitability – or a bit of each? I suspect the latter. And that’s how I feel, too, when it comes to the demise … Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, books, Broadcasting, Time Team | Tagged Alan Cadbury, Lifers' Club, Long Sutton, Mick Aston, Seahenge, The Way the Truth and the Dead, Time Team, Tottiford Reservoir, Unbound | Leave a comment

The Death of ‘Otzi’ , the Alpine Iceman

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Francis Pryor

The film I made last summer in the Alps was screened at 9.00 PM on May 11th as part of a new documentary series, Mummies Alive on the Yesterday channel. The programme was about the internationally celebrated ‘iceman’, now known as … Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting | Tagged iceman, Lindow, mummies, Mummies Alive, Otzi, Tollund, Yesterday Channel | Leave a comment

The Partial Solar Eclipse 2015: a newt’s eye view.

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Francis Pryor

I must admit, the media mega-hype leading up to the event did not put me in a particularly receptive frame of mind. The Breakfast Show on BBC1 was particularly inane. They seemed to think we all had a mental age … Continue reading →

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Time Team: Sailing into the Sunset?

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Francis Pryor

Next Sunday Channel 4 will be screening the last new Time Team film of any sort. It’s about prehistoric boats and I very much enjoyed being a part of it. So do try to see it, if only for old … Continue reading →

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A Grand Tour: South Tyrol, Leicestershire and my vegetable garden – Oh yes, and Twink

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Francis Pryor

For many people summer is about lying on a beach, getting sunburnt, but although I’ve tried to do it, I’ve never really succeeded. For a start, I turn the colour of an over-cooked lobster in about twenty minutes, but before … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, Farming, Gardening, My life | Tagged Burrough Hill, Italy, plum tomatoes, Twink | Leave a comment

Holy Islands (hidden bits of)

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Francis Pryor

This coming Sunday (March 2nd), at 8.00 PM on Channel 4 we’re going to be shown the latest of the Time Team documentaries we filmed last summer. They were fun to shoot, but I must admit I very much missed … Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team | Tagged defences, holy island, lindisfarne, lindisfarne priory, low hauxley, shooters hill, Time Team, World War II | Leave a comment

2014? It Feels Like September. Where Did Autumn Go?

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Francis Pryor

Welcome to the New Year. I think. As the rather wordy title suggests, I can’t work out where September, October and November went, let alone December, which seems to have glugged its way down a drain hole in the space-time … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, My life | Tagged Alan Cadbury, Flag Fen, gibson's games, jigsaw, Lifers' Club, mike jupp, neil oliver, sacred wonders of britain | Leave a comment

My Favourite Pictures (2): The Ribblehead Viaduct, North Yorkshire (1876)

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Francis Pryor

On a clear sunny day the Ribblehead Viaduct can look as stunning as anything in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. I’d visited the place three times, first when doing a recce and then twice (start and finish) when we were … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadcasting, History, Landscape | Tagged Blea Moor Common, Chapel-le-Dale, navvies, Ribblehead Viaduct, Risehill, Settle-Carlisle Railway, Time Team, Yorkshire Dales | Leave a comment

Dundrum: My Final Broadcast Time Team

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Francis Pryor

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 →