Archeology, Paleontology

Last Edited: 18-Sep-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Programs:

Mapping the Town
Meet the Ancestors (TV)
Time Team (TV)
Unearthing Mysteries

Date Title Cast Parameters
BBC R4
12-Jan-2002
to
26-Jan-2002

20-Sep-2003
to
04-Oct-2003

Diving into History
  1. The Salcombe Gold Wreck, 17th century
  2. The Wreck of the Ramillies, 1760
  3. Sinking the Maine, 1917
  4. 2-1 The Wreck of the SS Thistlegorm, 1941
  5. 2-2 Trainers Galore – Ship Cita, March 1997
  6. 2-3 The Death of the Duchess, 1936
Written and Presented by John Nightingale
Produced by Tim Malyon 



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28:03, 26311, S
28:05, 26343, S
27:59, 26239, S 
BBC R4
01-Jun-2002 to
22-Jun-2002  
City of the Sharp Nosed Fish
  1. Rubbish Tips and Riches
  2. Postcards from an Ancient World
  3. Paper Riddles in the Sand
  4. Greek Tragedies and Daily Soaps
Michael Kustow
Readers Fiona Shaw, Larry Lamb,
and Michael Perceval-Maxwell
Producer Amanda Hargreaves 

27:56, 6550, m
28:09, 6598, m
MISSING
28:08, 6596, m 

06-Jan-2003 to
10-Jan-2003
People of the British Museum
  1. Mummies, Myths and Magic
  2. Storehouse Of Knowledge
  3. Heavenly Houses
  4. Art Of the Sword
  5. Treasure and Healing
Danny Danzigergoes
Producer: Felicity Goodall
5 files
1:07:44, 62.0 MB, S
UK Channel 5
2003
Secrets of the Sphinx Revealed Vassil Dobrev
narrated by Christopher Kent
written and directed by Clive Maltby
AVI VIDEO
46:47, 315604
BBC R4
28-Jun-2004
to
02-Jul-2004
Prehistoric Manual
  1. Changing Huts, Round House Style
  2. The First Cross-Channel Ferry
  3. Chariots of Leather
  4. Chopping and Changing
  5. How to Kill a Woolly Mammoth
Mike Pitts
Produced by Robyn Read

14:01, 13158, S
13:42, 12860, S
13:44, 12880, S
13:58, 13107, S
13:55, 13052, S
03-Sep-2004 Reunion
The Raising of the Mary Rose, 1982
Sue MacGregor, Robert Hardy,
Margaret Rule
LOST or MISSING 
BBC R4
01-Sep-2004
to
29-Sep-2004
Digging for Britain, series 1
  1. William Stukeley
  2. Sir Richard Colt Hoare 
  3. General Augustus Pitt-Rivers
  4. Osbert Crawford
  5. Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Julian Richards
Produced by John Byrne

27:27, 25745, S
27:19, 25626, S
27:23, 25687, S
27:48, 26077, S
27:44. 26014, S
13-Sep-2005
Between Ourselves -- Forensic Archaeology
Olivia O'Leary
Producer: Karen Gregor
27:45, 26017, S
BBC TV4
06-Dec-2016 to
20-Dec-2016
Digging for Britain, series 5
  1. West
  2. North
  3. East
Alice Roberts
  1. Producer/Director Graham Cooper
  2. Producer/Director Gemma Hagen
  3. Producer/Director Alex Rowson
AVI VIDEO HD

59:01, 823815
59:00, 823826
58:56, 822831
25-Oct-2004 The First Christian Document? Roger Bolton
Produced by >>
28:22, 26603, S
02-Feb-2005
09-Feb-2005
Digitising Dunhuang Isabel Hilton
Produced by Julian May
28:10, 26411, S
28:16, 26506, S
27-Jul-2005 Rebuilding Rome in Twelve Hundred Pieces
Reassembling the Severan Marble Plan
Vanessa Collingridge
Produced by Julia Mayers
28:39, 26861, S
BBC R4
07-Aug-2005
to
21-Aug-2005

Romer's Roamings

About Ancient Egypt
John Romer
Produced by Libby Cross

14:15, 13373, S
14:21, 13460, S
14:27, 13551, S
15-Nov-2005 The Bridge at the Bottom of the Sea
Prehistoric landscape on the seafloor of
the English Channel
Richard Uridge 28:07, 26372, S
19-Dec-2005 The Light in Winter
Winter solstice at Newgrange, Ireland
Trevor Barnes
Produced by Christine Morgan
28:05, 26343, S
06-Mar-2006 The Boy Who Bought a Field
Stuart Wilson’s search for the medieval town
of Trellech, Wales
Francis Pryor
Produced by Martin Curzig
28:11, 26431, S
10-Apr-2006 The Greatest Archeologist of Them All
St. Helena
Malcolm Billings
Readings by Gareth Armstrong
Produced by Hugn Levenson
28:03, 26303, S
BBC R4
19-Apr-2006
to
03-May-2006

Trench Warfare – The Politics of Archaeology
  1. Identity and Belonging
  2. The Stones Cry out
  3. Who Owns the Bones?
Malcolm Billings
Produced by Brigit O’Hara and
Margaret Beauty
 
27:38, 25918, S
27:44, 26007, S
28:03, 26311, S
18-Apr-2006 Fascinating Deaths – The Taung Child Jessica Holm
Produced by Joann Stevens
27:55, 26188, S
01-May-2006 Lost, Stolen or Shredded
#1 The Lost Library of Herculaneum
Rick Gekoski
Produced by Alison Vernon Smith
13:57, 13088, S
BBC TV2
04-Sep-2006
to
06-Sep-2006
Lost Cities of the Ancients
  1. The Vanished Capital of the Pharaoh
  2. The Cursed Valley of the Pyramids
  3. The Dark Lords of Hattusha
Narrated by Mark Haluley
  1. Director Mark Everest
  2. Director Aidan Laverty
  3. Director Martin Wilson
AVI VIDEO

58:49, 602365
59:14, 607221
58:41, 600657
09-Jan-2007 A Thor in One’s Side
Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki
Tony Robinson
Produced by Jeff Ballinger
27:58, 26223, S
25-Jan-2007 to
08-Mar-2007
Origins Revisited
Aubrey Manning
Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker
3 files
1:24:04, 76.9 MB, S
UKTV 5
2007?
Stonehenge -- The True Story
Stephen Rashbrook

AVI VIDEO
47:05, 484324
17-Jul-2007
24-Jul-2007
Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited Roger Bolton
Produced by Norman Winter
28:05, 26338, S
27:38, 25916, S
05-Nov-2007
20-Feb-2008
Secrets of Stonehenge Francis Pryor
Produced by Char Price
27:58, 26232, S
21-Nov-2007 The Jawbone -- find in Kent's Cavern,
Torquay
Tom Higham
Produced by Martin Curzig
27:56, 26197, S
UKTV 4
2007
Secrets of Lost Empires 1-2 Stonehenge
narrated by Art Malik
Julian Richards, Mark Whitby, Roger Hopkins
produced by Cynthia Page
AVI VIDEO HD
46:40, 1160592
UKTV 5
2008
Revealed -- Egypt's Lost Tomb
narrated by Stephen Rashbrook

AVI VIDEO
47:10, 483700
26-Dec-2007
24-Feb-2008
Art in the Trenches Dan Snow
Produced by Sham Price
27:53, 26147, S
21-Jan-2008
28-Jan-2008
Fascinating Deaths
  1. The West Runton Elephant
  2. The Taung Child
Jessica Holm
Producer: Joanne Stevens
27:53, 26145, S
28:11, 26429, S
BBC R4
03-Feb-2008
to
02-Mar-2008
Drawings on the Wall, The
  1. The Legless Women of Creswell Craggs
  2. Graffiti Gorge
  3. Irish Illusions
  4. The Master of Paspardo
  5. Architecture of Death
George Nash
Produced by Chris Eldon-Lee

14:02, 13168, S
14:05, 13211, S
14:02, 13171, S
14:05, 13206, S
14:11, 13303, S
21-Apr-2008 to
25-Apr-2008
--
Repeated
09-Jan-2009

Hunting the Beagle
Robert Prescott
Produced by Jeremy Grange

14:09, 13267, S
13:59, 13111, S
14:07, 13243, S
13:52, 13007, S
13:56, 13069, S
--
57:08, 53564, S

CBC R1 IDEAS
29-Oct-2008
05-Nov-2008
Homo (sapiens) Neanderthalensis
  1. The Cossack Deserter
  2. Shadows on the Nursery Wall
Dave Redel, Paul Kennedy
Produced by
53:30, 50186, S
53:21, 50049, S
27-Jan-2009
Britain's Atlantis
Francis Pryor
Producer: Martin Kurzik
28:05, 26329, S
07-Feb-2010 In Pursuit of Treasure Mike Pitts
produced by Terry Lewis
27:57, 26214, S
08-Feb-2010
15-Feb-2010
The Voices Who Dug Up The Past
Why different archaeologists can dig the same
sites yet reach completely different
conclusions
Mike Pitts
produced by Sian Pryce
27:55, 26182, S
27:55, 26184, S
13-Nov-2010
A Dinosaur Called Sue

Sue MacGregor
Producer: David Prest

27:47, 26-61, S
05-Oct-2011 Who Found Machu Picchu? Hugh Thomson
Producer: Dom Byrne
27:34, 25795, S
UK CHANNEL FOUR
28-Nov-2011
Digging the The Great Escape Paul McGann, Dr Howard Tuck, Tony Pollard
LTC Philip Westwood
produced and directed by Paul Nelson
AVI VIDEO HD
71:37, 1777896
UK CHANNEL FOUR
13-Mar-2013
Secrets of the Stonehenge Skeletons
Mike Parker Pearson
Directed by Nick Gillam-Smith
AVI VIDEO
46:54, 1164249

UK CHANNEL FOUR
04-Feb-2013
Richard III: The King in the Car Park
presented by Simon Farnaby
Leon Hunt, John Ashdown-Hill, Richard
Buckley, Philippa Langley, Matthew Morris,
Jo Appleby, Richard Taylor, Lin Foxhall,
Anthony Pollard, Nick Cooper, Johanna
Hamminga, Jonathan Hayes, Sally Keil,
Caroline Wilkinson, Pamela Tudor-Craig,
Piers Mitchell, Michael Ibsen, Bob
Woosnam-Savage, Stuart Hamilton,
Turi King
Directed by Louise Osmond, Pete Woods
Produced by Louise Osmond
AVI VIDEO HD
74:13, 1841249
BBC TV2
11-Sep-2014
18-Sep-2014
Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath
narrated by Samuel West
Henry Chapman, Wolfgang Neubauer, Rick
Schulting, Miles Russell, Vincent Gaffney,
Paul Garwood, Jacqueline McKinley
Director Jeremy Turner
AVI VIDEO HD
57:47, 1437933
58:30, 1460355
02-Dec-2014
Inside Science --
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
Alice Roberts

27:25, 25726, S
Channel Four
19-Jul-2015
Secret History - Crossrail Discovery:
London's Lost Graveyard
Robert Lindsay
written and directed by Kenny Scott
AVI Video
47:04, 473054
Channel Four
24-Apr-2016
Secret History - The Mystery of
the Crossrail Skulls
Jim Carter
written and directed by Kenny Scott
AVI Video
46:44, 471008

Paleontology
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
CBC R1 IDEAS
11-Oct-2010
12-Oct-2010
Inventing Dinosaurs
Seth Feldman, Paul Kennedy
Produced by Sara Wolch
53:36, 50260, S
53:28, 50126, S
BBC R4
02-Jan-2014
Inside Science --
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
Alice Roberts
27:25, 25726, S