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Making History: 13/11/2012

13/11/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Making History, 13/11/2012

What next for archaeology on TV? Tony Robinson joins the discussion with Helen Castor.

What next for archaeology on TV, now that Time Team is scrapped? Tony Robinson joins the discussion with Prof Sir Barry Cunliffe and Marion Blockley. Presented by Helen Castor.

Helen Castor and her guests discuss listener's questions and the latest research that's making history. 

This week:

What next for archaeology on TV now that Time Team has been scrapped, and what has the programme achieved? Tony Robinson joins in the discussion with Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and Marion Blockley.

Phil Harding takes us up onto the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire to the spot where he first realised that he wanted to be an archaeologist.

Tom Holland visits Europe's most important Bronze Age site, Flag Fen near Peterborough, to meet Francis Pryor who discovered this ancient causeway exactly thirty years ago.

And the team at Dig Ventures explain how crowd-funding might well be the way that archaeological digs are financed in the future.

Join in the discussion on Facebook or by emailing making.history@bbc.co.uk


Producer: Nick Patrick
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