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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28:05, 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
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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