Yes I heard that on the radio, they obviously realised that they had no chance of getting any boxes back, or the money. But as they said on the radio, the receivers were obliged to try and get the money, on behalf of the creditors.
Well, it makes me feel really guilty - keeping that set-top box without paying, after failing to cancel our Direct Debit for ITV Digital's service for some months after they went into receivership. They didn't stop collecting the money...
Mind you, somehow we were still getting the programmes!
And now we're getting even more with BBC Freeview!
Well in Valeries abscence,from this weeks Radio Times.( Apologies for any omissions spelling mictakes etc, but this took me ages.)
Interesting TV abd radio Progammes,January 25 to Fri. January 31
Saturday 25th January
Heroes and Villans Radio 4 10.30am
Matthew Parris chooses 2 famous characters and asks which was the hero and which the villian. This week he pitches Lady McBeth against Joan of Arc.
The Archive Hour:The Great Gale Radio 4 8pm
The story ofof the worst natural disaster to hit the British Isles in the 20th centuary- the floods that that devastated much of the east coast of of England on Jan 31 1953. (Should be of particular interest to EAFF> There is also a t.v. programme later in the week.)
Sunday 26th January
Correspondant- The Betrayed BBC 2 7.15pm
Fergal Keane investigates the the slaughter of Armenians in 1915- a massacre which has returned to haunt Turkey and its western allies.
Sunday Best: The Roman Way Radio 4 1.30pm
A series where David Aaronovitch looks at how the RomanEmpire dealt with power, politics, culture andentertainment. 2: Life at the Top. Was the emperor an autocrat or a man of the people?
Monday 27th January
Fred Dibnah's Building of Britain BBC2 7.30pm
Victorian Splendour. Dibnah indulges his passion for19th centuary engineering and architecture.
A Brief History of the End of Everything Radio 4 3.45pm (a week long series)
The astromomer Brother Guy Consolmagno presents a beginners guide to ideas, both ancient and modern, about how the universe will end. 1: Eternity.
The Real Patron Saints Radio 4 8.30pm
Ian Hislop continues his investigation into the history of the patron saints of Britain and Ireland. 3: St Andrew.
Tuesday 28th January
What the Victorians Did for Us BBC2 7.30pm
Crime and Punishment. Continuing Adam Hart-Davis' lookat Victorian life.
A Breif History of the End of Everything Radio4 3.45pm
Part 2: The Big Crunch
Wednesday 29th January
Auschwitz Channel 5 8pm
Documenary using newly dicovered blueprints and documentation to show how a small Polish town became the location of the notortius Nazi extermination camp.
Witchcraze BBC2 9pm
A docudrama based on original documents about the East Lothian witchcraze that began in 1589 and led to the incarceration of 300 and the execution of many more.
A Breif History of the End of Everything Radio 4 3.45pm
Part 3: The Bouncing Universe
Thursday 30th January
Homeground BBC2 7.30pm
The Longest Night. The 1953 East Coast Floods revisited.
Empire Channel 4 9pm
Heaven's Breed. Niel Ferguon travels through India to discover how, at the height of the empire, the British were able to govern millions of Indians with fewer than a thousand civil servants.
Lost Kingdom Radio 4 9.30am
Why did King Athelstan, the first king of all England choose Malmesbury as his final resting place? Guy Browning travels Wiltshire to uncover the strange tale of the little town that had everything but refused to grow.
A breif History of the End of Everything Radio 4 3.45pm
Part 4: The Big Chill
The Dark Origins of Britain Radio 4 8pm
Last in the series looking at how the modern nations of England, Wales and Scotland were born out of the chaos of ths Dark Ages.
Friday 31st January
Royal Deaths and Diseases Channel 4 8pm
Royal Birth. The series concludes with how royalty's experience of childbirth can change history.
Ramesses III- behind the Myth of a Pharoh- Timewatch BBC2 9pm
With the help of papyrus that was nver intended to survive, the dark workings of a paroh in crisis are revealed.
A Breif History of the End of Everything Radio 4 3.45pm
quote:Originally posted by Valerie: Thanks ever so to Angela M for keeping my seat warm - I'm back and fighting fit - ready to take up the burden once more!
PS I take it that your omission of Time Team from the listings for today was because you take it for granted that we all know when it is on??
I'll just say 'yes of course', Valerie and your welcome to your seat, it's very comfy by the way!!
SATURDAY 1st BBC 2 8.10pm Terry Jones's Hidden Histories - Egypt In the first of two films Monty Python's Terry Jones unearths the secrets of this ancient world in his unique style, rooting out information about how ordinary people lived thousands of years ago. In tonight's film some surprising and little-known facts throw new light on our understanding of the ancient Egyptians.
SUNDAY 2nd Channel 4 5.30pm TIME TEAM ******* Henry VIII's favourite palace was Greenwich, where he spent most of his time, housed his main armoury and built a huge yard in which he indulged his love of jousting. But both the armoury and the jousting yard were lost when the palace was replaced by the naval college and maritime museum. The Team have three days to dig up the lawns in search of both these historic features.
BBC 2 9.00pm - Scotland only. Ramases III - behind the Myth of a Pharaoh - Timewatch. Ramases III is remembered as Egypt's last great pharaoh, but the truth was very different. Ancient papyrus helps to reveal the dark workings of a pharaoh in crisis. A story of conspiracy, vengeance and murder, it belies the positive image Ramases III hoped to leave as his legacy.
BBC 2 9.00pm - shown at 10.20pm in Scotland. Dan Cruickshank and the Lost Cities of Iraq. Architectural historian DC explores Iraq's rich cultural heritage - which could fall casualty to imminent war - including the birthplace of civilisation and the world's first city.
MONDAY 3rd Channel 4 8.00pm Salvage Squad. This week, Suggs and the team attempt to restore to its former glory a forgotten piece of WWI history in the shape of a Simplex narrow-gauge locomotive - which they plan to set in motion once again on the only surviving contemporary stretch of track, near the Somme battlefield.
Channel 4 9.00pm Leonardo's Dream Machines. Leonardo da Vinci was the embodiment of "Renaissance Man" - an artist and scientist who produced thousands of drawings for many inventions, from his famed helicopter to more fantastical contraptions. In the first of two programmes experts attempt to turn two of his most imaginative and daring designs - for a glider and a crossbow - into reality.
TUESDAY 4th BBC 2 9.00pm Napoleon's Lost Army. First of a new six-part series of MEET THE ANCESTORS specials reveals the discovery of the first ever mass grave from Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Army. This surprising find, unearthed on the outskirts of Vilnius, Lithuania in early 2002, challenges the conventional view of the French Emperor and his ill-fated 1812 Russian campaign.
WEDNESDAY 5th BBC 2 7.30pm What The Victorians Did For Us. (Scotland only - showing in England on Thursday at same time). Adam Hart-Davis investigates Victorian innovations. Social Progress. A H-D explores the impact of sanitation and investigates how education, public-health measures and consumption improved life for many Victorians.
THURSDAY 6th Channel 4 8.00pm Battle Stations. Blackbird Stealth. Designed in the early 1960s, the SR-71 Blackbird was the world's first stealth aircraft. Capable of flying speeds of over 2,000mph and operating in the highest 1% of the earth's atmosphere, the aircraft has long since remained a valuable weapon in gathering information on enemy territories. Through re-enactments and archive footage - plus a retracing of flights already undertaken by the SR-71 and interviews with leading crew members and commanders - this installment of the military-history series provides a definitive portrait of this extraordinary aircraft.
Channel 4 9.00pm Empire. Penultimate episode of a six-part series in which Professor Niall Ferguson tells the full story of the rise and fall of the British Empire. Maxim Force. Relating the story of the European "Scramble for Africa". Arguing that it was the British popular press, as much as global finance and military power, that fuelled support for annexeing half of Africa, Ferguson cites this as a moment of imperial overkill - when the British began to believe the world should be theirs. But a reality check soon materialised in the form of the Boers, and also in Germany's menacing new empire.
FRIDAY 7th Channel 4 8.00pm The Six Wives of Henry VIII The women who married Henry VIII are mostly known for the way their lives ended. In this repeated series, historian David Starkey celebrates the lives of the six immortalised in the rhyme "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived", starting with Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
BBC 2 9.00pm NOT Scotland Timewatch. 1914: the War Revolution.
This week's Time Team programmes on Discovery. A TT programme is scheduled for 7.00am and 5.00pm on Saturday 1st.
And don't forget - the new channel UKHistory is now in full flow for those with access to digital, satellite or cable.
SATURDAY 8th BBC 2 8.10pm Terry Jones's Hidden Histories - Rome In the second of two films Monty Python's Terry Jones unearths some surprising facts about the Romans - revelations which include drinking habits at the Priest and the Cucumber bar, the major problem of burglary, and exactly what went on in Roman bathhouses.
SUNDAY 9th Channel 4 5.30pm TIME TEAM ******* T R and the Team scour south London for the first factory belonging to Liberty, the company famous for its opulent silks and floating dresses. The search proves to be an exacting one, but the third and final day brings the vital breakthrough, as well as an attempt to recreate the 19th-century techniques of dyeing (or dying as Radio Times would have it!!!) and printing silks.
MONDAY 10th Channel 4 8.00pm Salvage Squad. This week, Suggs and the skilled engineering team channel their expertise into restoring Dr Bob Dyke's 100-year-old Whites steam car, with the ultimate aim of watching it complete the 53-mile London to Brighton veteran car run.
Channel 4 9.00pm Leonardo's Dream Machines. Leonardo da Vinci was the embodiment of "Renaissance Man" - an artist and scientist who produced thousands of drawings for many inventions, from his famed helicopter to more fantastical contraptions. In the second of two programmes experts continue their attempts to turn two of his most imaginative and daring designs - for a glider and a crossbow - into reality. The crossbow team decide to risk everything by testing out their weapon, while glider pilot Judy Leden bravely climbs aboard Leonardo's flying machine, a mere 500 years after it was first designed.
Five 8.00pm Kings and Queens Henry V. Historian Nigel Spivey examines the brief but dramatic life of the warrior king.
Five 8.30pm Weapons of WWII Aircraft Carriers. The huge floating airstrips that usurped the battleship in marine war.
TUESDAY 11th BBC 2 7.30pm Crooked Britain. Going, Going, Gone. Using covert techniques, reporter Mike Radford delves into the murky world of the antiques business to expose the thriving trade in stolen property.
WEDNESDAY 12th BBC 2 9.00pm Desert Rescue. A Meet The Ancestors special following the story of a British airliner which crashed over the Sahara 50 years ago. Using testimonies from the crew, passengers and crash investigation documents, it reconstructs the final hours of the doomed aircraft and shows how survivors fled the wreckage only to find themselves in in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
THURSDAY 13th Channel 4 8.00pm Battle Stations. (postponed from 6th Feb) Blackbird Stealth. Designed in the early 1960s, the SR-71 Blackbird was the world's first stealth aircraft. Capable of flying speeds of over 2,000mph and operating in the highest 1% of the earth's atmosphere, the aircraft has long since remained a valuable weapon in gathering information on enemy territories. Through re-enactments and archive footage - plus a retracing of flights already undertaken by the SR-71 and interviews with leading crew members and commanders - this installment of the military-history series provides a definitive portrait of this extraordinary aircraft.
Channel 4 9.00pm Empire. Empire For Sale. Professor Niall Ferguson concludes his history of the rise and fall of the British Empire by arguing that Britain's Imperial desires were finally sacrificed in the two world wars to defeat the far harsher empires of Germany and Japan. After WWII, it was the USA that carried the greatest global power, but its budding empire was embarrassed to wield power openly. More recent events, however, have left Ferguson questioning whether the USA will follow in Britain's imperial footsteps by increasingly dictating world issues.
FRIDAY 14th Channel 4 8.00pm The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon cleared the way for him to marry the feisty Anne Boleyn, but her subsequent failure to provide the king with a son sealed her grisly fate.
This week's Time Team programmes on Discovery. A TT programme is scheduled for 7.00am and 5.00pm on Saturday 8th.
And don't forget - the new channel UKHistory is now in full flow for those with access to digital, satellite or cable.
SUNDAY 16th Channel 4 5.30pm TIME TEAM ******* The Royal Crescent in Bath is one of Britain's finest pieces of architecture, but that doesn't deter T R and the Team from staging an archaeological dig there. Their search for a Roman cemetery and the Fosse Way is slowed by heavy rain and the unexpected discovery of a Victorian church cellar but by day three..................The rest is censored in the interests of not spoiling the story!
MONDAY 17th BBC 2 8.00pm The Real Tartan Army. Scotland only A profile of the Scots Guards, a regiment that was first established in 1642 when King Charles I authorised The Marquess of Argyll to raise a 1,500-strong army. Having served in all major campaigns, their fearsome reputation goes before them - yet they also took part in the 1914 Christmas truce of the First World War that saw troops leave the trenches to fraternise with their German counterparts.
Channel 4 8.00pm Salvage Squad. Suggs and the team attempt to restore enthusiast Philip Higg's 1952 Coronation tram, hoping to make it sparkle once more under the lights of Blackpool's Golden Mile.
Five 8.00pm Kings and Queens Richard III. Historian Nigel Spivey considers whether the king was really a monster.
Five 8.30pm Weapons of WWII Fighter Bombers. Hitler's Stuka bomber, capable of diving at an 80-degree angle.
WEDNESDAY 19th BBC 2 9.00pm King of Stonehenge. In spring 2002, excavations near Stonehenge turned up the richest Bronze Age burial ever found in Britain, with a man, presumed to be an archer, laid to rest with ten times the quantity of grave goods ever found before, including gold jewellery, copper knives and two full sets of hunting equipment. This Meet The Ancestors special sets out to discover the dead man's identity. Along the way, there are surprises - including the discovery of a second skeleton.
THURSDAY 20th Channel 4 8.00pm Battle Stations. P-38 Lightning Fighter. The Lockheed twin-engined P-38 was the most advanced fighter of its day. The first fighter to fly at 400mph, its previously unheard of performance and versatility made it one of the most fearsome weapons of WWII. Using archive film, colour re-enactments and interviews with pilots, the penultimate edition of this military-history series enters the cockpit of this formidable aircraft, revealing the thoughts of those who flew it.
Channel 4 9.00pm Britain BC. The first of two programmes in which writer and archaeologist Francis Pryor uncovers an inspiring and original view of Britain before the Roman invasion. Travelling from Anglesey to the Orkneys, from Dover to the Western Isles of Scotland, and from Stonehenge to Maiden Castle in Dorset, Pryor finds out what made the ancient Britons tick and discovers that they were far more sophisticated than previously imagined.
FRIDAY 21st Channel 4 8.00pm The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Jane Seymour seemed a perfect contrast to Anne Boleyn and in 1537 gave Henry what he had craved for so long - a son. But days later she was dead, and Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, was destined to endure a humiliating divorce.
Five 9.00pm Revealed: Who Killed Tutankhamun? Two FBI detectives, using the latest forensic technology and assisted by leading archaeologists, try to solve the enduring puzzle of the young king's death.
This week's Time Team programmes on Discovery. A TT programme is scheduled for 7.00am and 5.00pm on Saturday 8th.
And don't forget - the UKHistory channel is available for those with access to digital, satellite or cable.
From the Radio Times ‘Tony Robinson travels from London to Kent, in the footsteps of some famous literary pilgrims, with Allan Hughes, a man who believes Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ to be an allegory depicting the disastrous reign of Richard II. Far from being a dry, intellectual journey, this is a fascinating trip through the nation’s social history with a Welsh driving instructor-cum-Chaucer fanatic who’s never been to London before. His theory has irritated academics but Hughes’s insight into the lives of both Chaucer and Richard II is truly revealing.’
SATURDAY 22nd BBC 2 6.20pm The Great War. Beginning a rerun of this epic 26-part series, updated for broadcasting on both digital and analogue channels. First shown in 1964, the series - showing on both BBC 2 and BBC 4 - uses eyewitness accounts and archive film to bring to life the 1914 - 1918 conflict. Narrated by Michael Redgrave. On The Idle Hill of Summer. 1914: Britain and France form a defence pact as a fervently nationalistic Germany asserts its military might. Continues at 7pm on BBC 4. Preceeded at 5.40pm by "That Was the Great War That Was". A look at the work of the production team who brought the First World War to the small screen.
BBC 2 8.00pm The Artist's Studio : Titian. The 16th-century artist Titian is one of the great colourists who pioneered the use of oil paints. In this pilot film, portraitist Tai-shan Schierenberg attempts to get to the heart of Titian's creative process by recreating a replica of his Venetian workshop, and learning more about the technical brilliance that lies behind some of his greatest work.
SUNDAY 23rd Channel 4 5.30pm TIME TEAM ******* The team move in on Athelney in Somerset, one of England's most historic sites, where King Alfred established his stronghold and organised the campaign to wrest England from the Vikings. The famous fortified abbey yields many secrets, including a remarkable revelation about its origins.
MONDAY 24th BBC 2 8.00pm The Real Tartan Army. Scotland only. The Cameronians were raised from a Presbyterian sect, and fought their first battle against Jacobite Highlanders. In WWII, many of them fought the Japanese as part of the elite Chindit force. But when threatened with amalgamation, the regiment chose to be disbanded and marched into history in 1968.
BBC 2 11.20pm Luther. Two-part docudrama starring Timothy West Driven to Defiance. Luther sets himself on a road to conflict.
Channel 4 8.00pm Salvage Squad. Suggs and the team attempt to restore the unique JAP engine and battered bodywork of 78-year-old Iris Dobson's pride and joy - a 1931 Morgan Super Sports three-wheeler.
Five 8.00pm Tim Marlow on Titian. To coincide with the new Titian exhibition at London's National Gallery, Marlow examines the 16th-century artist's life and works.
Five 8.30pm Weapons of WWII Gliders. How gliders were used by the Allies and Nazis.
TUESDAY 25th BBC 2 11.20pm Luther. The Reluctant Revolutionary. The conclusion of this docudrama sees the German monk's ideas spread like wildfire, helped by the printing press.
WEDNESDAY 26th BBC 2 9.00pm Britain's Oldest House. On the edge of a Northumberland cliff, what originally looked like a scatter of flints has turned out to be the oldest house ever discovered in Britain. In this special edition of Meet The Ancestors, Julian Richards joins archaeologist Clive Waddington as he uncovers evidence of Stone Age life which reveals the people of 10,000 years ago to be far more advanced than had previously been thought.
THURSDAY 27th Channel 4 8.00pm Battle Stations. Corsair: Pacific Warrior. First flown in May 1940, the Corsair quickly became the fastest single-engined fighter in the world, with a diving speed of more than 500 mph. It won fame in the USA for its battles against the Japanese Air Force during the final stages of the Pacific campaign. Using detailed re-enactments along with unique colour archive film and interviews with WWII veterans this final edition of the military-history series tells the story of the plane that the Japanese called "Whistling Death".
Channel 4 9.00pm Britain BC. The second of two programmes in which writer and archaeologist Francis Pryor uncovers an inspiring and original view of Britain before the Roman invasion. Travelling from Stonehenge to the Orkneys, Pryor interprets the meaning of the great stone circles and how they fitted into the spiritual landscape of the early Britons, and questions why the invading Romans were more concerned about exterminating the druids than countering the real military threat posed by Boudicca's warring army.
FRIDAY 28th BBC 2 9.00pm Chaplin and Hitler - The Tramp and the Dictator. Using colour footage found hidden in suitcases at the Chaplin family villa, TIMEWATCH presents a new analysis of the film "The Great Dictator" and recounts the parallel stories of Charlie Chaplin and Hitler - two men born in the same week. As the Nazi leader launched his blitzkrieg, Chaplin's satire of Adolf Hitler was near completion. By the time the movie arrived in England - at the height of the Blitz - it was regarded as the greatest tonic imaginable for the British people, and it went on to bank more than twice as much as any other Chaplin film. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh.
Channel 4 8.00pm The Six Wives of Henry VIII Catherine Howard was Henry's ill-fated fifth queen, who paid the ultimate price for her romantic past. His sixth and last wife Catherine Parr, proved more resilient. Last in the series.
This week's Time Team programmes on Discovery. A TT programme is scheduled for 7.00am and 5.00pm on Saturday 22nd.
And don't forget - the new channel UKHistory is now in full flow for those with access to digital, satellite or cable.
BBC Radio Four Monday 24th February 2003 11:00 to 11:30
Archaeologist Julian Richards uncovers the hidden histories of towns. This edition comes from Reading, a town which has been continually reinventing itself for over 1,000 years.
BBC Radio Four Monday 3rd March 2003 11:00 to 11:30
Archaeologist Julian Richards uncovers the hidden histories of towns. This edition comes from Sheffield, the steel city whose industrial past has its origins in medieval times.
SATURDAY 1st BBC 2 6.20pm The Great War. A rerun of this epic 26-part series, updated for broadcasting on both digital and analogue channels. First shown in 1964, the series - showing on both BBC 2 and BBC 4 - uses eyewitness accounts and archive film to bring to life the 1914 - 1918 conflict. Narrated by Michael Redgrave. For Such a Stupid Reason Too. The assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914 led to a breakdown in international diplomacy that ultimately led to war. Continues at 7.05 on BBC 4.
BBC 2 8.05pm Newton: The Dark Heretic. Isaac Newton is remembered today as the father of modern science. However, this docudrama reveals a different side to the 17th-century scientist - a heretic who dabbled in alchemy and believed that the Bible contained laws of the universe in hidden code.
SUNDAY 2nd Channel 4 5.25pm NOTE THE EARLIER START TIME!!!! TIME TEAM ******* Kew Gardens is world famous, but how many visitors know they're walking on top of a lost royal palace? King George III built himself a fine residence here, but today just the kitchen block remains in a secluded corner. TR and the Team rip up Kew's immaculate lawns in search of the palace's elusive foundations. Clues are easy to find, but can they piece together the whole plan in just three days??
MONDAY 3rd BBC 2 8.00pm The Real Tartan Army. Scotland only A history of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, one of the oldest unamalgamated regiments in the British army. Formed in 1689 to defend Edinburgh against invasion by the Jacobites, the regiment has seen action in many corners of the globe. In WWI its soldiers fought on the Western Front, at Gallipolli and in Palestine. And during WWII, the KOSB survived the fall of France and were evacuated at Dunkirk.
Channel 4 8.00pm Salvage Squad. In the penultimate episode, Suggs and the team scale new heights as they attempt to restore a rusting RB10 crane with 40ft jib arms to working order.
Five 8.30pm Weapons of WWII Heavy Bombers. How bomber planes became the dominant military vehicles by 1945, and heralded the advent of the nuclear age.
WEDNESDAY 5th BBC 2 9.00pm The Lost City of Roman Britain. One of Roman Britain's greatest mysteries lay undetected in the heart of the hampshire countryside until recently. All that remains of the missing city of Calleva Atrebatum is a wall round 100 hectares of empty fields. How could a city once as important as Canterbury simply disappear? Using advanced computer graphics this Meet The Ancestors special fills in the gaps to rebuild the city and examine the reasons behind its abandonment. With Julian Richards.
THURSDAY 6th Channel 4 8.00pm Battle Stations. Black Hawk. For over 25 years the Black Hawk has been the US army's frontline utility helicopter for air assault, air cavalry and medical evacuation. Using archive film, interviews and dramatic re-enactments, this documentary charts the aircraft's chequered history, including its successful use in the Gulf War and the tragic operation in Mogadishu in 1993.
Channel 4 8.30pm Lionheart - The Crusade. Feature-length documentary using expert analysis and reconstructions of sieges and battles to present the story of the Third Crusade in 1189. The programme details the way in which the personalities of Arab leader Saladin - a charismatic and wily empire builder - and English monarch Richard the Lionheart - a brilliant strategist and brutal warrior - shaped the largest and most dramatic military campaign of the Middle Ages. Narrated by Joss Ackland.
FRIDAY 7th BBC 2 9.00pm Secrets of Leadership. Hitler. Despised by most people, did the Nazi dictator display attributes that others have copied? In the first of a four-part seriesexamining the administrative secrets of past leaders, historian Andrew Roberts reveals that Adolf Hitler's techniques were unwittingly deployed by more recent heads in both politics and business. Roberts also challenges popular myths about the way Hitler ran the Nazi state and his military machine, suggesting that the key to both his early successes and his ultimate defeat lay in the way he presided over Germany.
Channel 4 8.00pm Edward and Mary: the Unknown Tudors. First of two films in which Dr David Starkey explores the story of two of England's less well-known monarchs: the reforming Protestant Edward VI and his Catholic sister Queen Mary.
This week's Time Team programmes on Discovery. A TT programme is scheduled for 7.00am and 5.00pm on Saturday 22nd.
AND HOORAY! THE DAILY TIME TEAM REPEATS RETURN TO DISCOVERY!!!
Monday The archaeologists face an historical puzzle. Tuesday Investigating the remains of a Norman castle. Wednesday A Celtic discovery in the Welsh valleys. Thursday Examining a Roman villa in the Cotswolds. Friday Blaenavon.
And don't forget - the new channel UKHistory is now in full flow for those with access to digital, satellite or cable.
SATURDAY 8th BBC 2 6.55pm The Great War. A rerun of this epic 26-part series, updated for broadcasting on both digital and analogue channels. First shown in 1964, the series - showing on both BBC 2 and BBC 4 - uses eyewitness accounts and archive film to bring to life the 1914 - 1918 conflict. Narrated by Michael Redgrave. We Must Hack Our Way Through. Following the declaration of war, the German army began to carry out one of the most famous military plans in history. Known as the Schliffen Plan, its objective was to finish the war in 40 days. Continues at 7.35 on BBC 4.
SUNDAY 9th BBC 2 5.25pm Natural World. Sahara - The English Patient's Desert. In 1933, explorer Ladislaus Almasy, whose story is told in the film "The English Patient", discovered prehistoric rock art in the middle of the Sahara. Were these pictures signs of an ancient African paradise? Simon MacCorkindale narrates.
Channel 4 5.35pm NOTE THE LATER START TIME!!!! TIME TEAM ******* A rare Bronze Age cemetery is the prompt for TR and the Team to travel to Fife in Scotland. Developers are keen to move onto the land and there is just time in which to excavate the graves. But can they solve the mystery of the huge stone-covered burial at the heart of the area?
MONDAY 10th BBC 2 8.00pm The Real Tartan Army. Scotland only Two centuries of soldiering are reflected in this history of the Cameron Highlanders, which includes memoirs of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and 104-year-old Andrew Bowie's recollections of the First World War trenches.
Channel 4 8.00pm Salvage Squad. In the last restoration challenge of the series, Suggs and the team take on the oldest moving steam engine in the world - an 1870 Fowler steam plough that helped to revolutionise agriculture 50 years before the first tractors.
Five 8.30pm Weapons of WWII Battleships. Examining how their vulnerability to aerial attack led to the demise of gigantic battleships.
THURSDAY 13th Channel 4 8.00pm Wreck Detectives. HMS Pomone. First in a new eight-part series investigating some of the most intriguing historic shipwrecks to be found lying off the coast of Britain. Using marine archaeology, oceanography, historical research and the latest technology, tonight's film follows historian Jeremy Seal and expert divers Miranda Krestovnikoff and Jason Gibb as they journey to waters off the Isle of Wight to uncover the story of a 19th-century ship. Could it be the lost wreck of a famous British frigate sunk during the Napoleonic Wars?
Channel 4 9.00pm Secrets of the Dead. Titanic's Ghosts. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Nova Scotia is the last resting place for 150 victims of the tragic sinking of the Titanic in April 1912. Of these dead, 44 were never identified, and have lain in graves marked only by numbers for almost a century. In the first of three new forensic archaeology programmes, scientists and historians use new techniques and rare documents in an attempt to prove the identity of three of those who lie in unmarked graves.
FRIDAY 14th BBC 2 9.00pm Secrets of Leadership. The second of a four-part series examining the administrative secrets of past leaders. Churchill. Before Winston Churchill won his reputation as Britain's greatest wartime Prime Minister, he had a less than successful spell at the admiralty. Yet, as historian Andrew Roberts reveals, many of the weaknesses he revealed as a subordinate in charge of the navy became great strengths once he was in ultimate charge and he had to skillfully avert a Nazi invasion of Britain.
This week's Time Team programmes on Discovery.
A TT programme is scheduled for 7.00am and 5.00pm on Saturday 8th.
AND HOORAY! THE DAILY TIME TEAM REPEATS RETURN TO DISCOVERY!!!
Monday Uncovering the secrets of an historical house in Rycote, Oxfordshire. Tuesday The Team travel to Salisbury Plain. Wednesday The gruesome "bone cave" in Gloucestershire. Thursday Uncovering a Roman villa in Basildon. Friday Investigating the "palace" on Holy Island.
And don't forget - the new channel UKHistory is now in full flow for those with access to digital, satellite or cable.
SATURDAY 15th BBC 2 8.00pm Designing the Decades. First of a new series revisiting Britain's design heritage in a journey spanning four decades and taking in iconic architecture, interiors, fashion and accessories. Designing the Sixties. With post-war blues a thing of the past, the 1960s heralded an international explosion in British pop culture. Among the designs that sprang from the flurry of innovation were the miniskirt, which actually brought about a change in the tax laws, the Austin Mini, a cult car which broke through class barriers, and one of the most famous album covers of all time - The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Adam Faith, Terence Conran, Mary Quant and Tony Benn talk about this exhilerating decade. Presented by Penelope Keith.
SUNDAY 16th Channel 4 5.35pm NOTE THE LATER START TIME!!!! TIME TEAM ******* When Castle Howard was built in Yorkshire, a mediaeval village was razed to the ground. Now the owners are keen to learn about the village and its inhabitants and so invite TR and the Team to investigate. Records are sparse and the search proves challenging until the team make an astonishing discovery in a dusty basement.
MONDAY 17th BBC 2 8.00pm The Real Tartan Army. Scotland only A history of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, a regiment which saw service against the Jacobites in the 18th century, and fought in France and Flanders during WWI. In 1959 the regiment was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers.
Channel 4 8.00pm U-234 - Hitler's Last Submarine. The first of a new five part series, Last Missions of WWII. The story of the U-boat that, in the final days of WWII, left Germany carrying scientists, members of the Nazi high command, jet-engine components and ten boxes - which, when unloaded by the U-234's captors, attracted the attention of Robert Oppenheimer, the mastermind behind the atomic bomb.
TUESDAY 18th BBC 2 9.00pm The Mummies of Cladh Hallan. A leading British archaeologist believes he has discovered the first British mummies, dating from the Bronze Age, a claim which flies in the face of conventional thinking about ancient Britons. In this MEET THE ANCESTORS special his finds are subjected to strict scientific scrutiny.
THURSDAY 20th Channel 4 8.00pm Wreck Detectives. Earl of Abergavenny. In 1805 the massive East India trading ship the Earl of Abergavenny was caught in a storm and sank a mile and a half from safety in Weymouth harbour, Dorset. In this second of a new part series investigating historic shipwrecks found off the coast of Britain, historian Jeremy Seal and expert divers Miranda Krestovnikoff and Jason Gibb probe the controversy surrounding the ship's demise. Could Captain John Wordsworth - brother of poet William - have put profit before the lives of his crew? Or did a fatal flaw in the Abergavenny's construction hasten her sinking?
Channel 4 9.00pm Secrets of the Dead. The Coldest March. Today, the name of Robert Falcon Scott is synonymous with bad planning, hasty decisions , and rashness to the point of irresponsibility. Yet new research revealed in tonight's documentary indicates that Scott's Antarctic expedition was planned with meticulous precision, and only an astonishing run of meteorological bad luck prevented its safe return. Could this remarkable assertion turn 90 years of continuing bad press on its head?
FRIDAY 14th BBC 2 9.00pm Secrets of Leadership. Third of a four-part series examining the administrative secrets of past leaders. John F Kennedy. Nearly 40 years after his assassination, the US president is regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest leaders: war hero, accomplished writer, brilliant orator and loving husband. But was JFK as virtuous as he appeared? Andrew Roberts shows how Kennedy gained public admiration by creating his own myth.
Channel 4 8.00pm Edward and Mary: The Unknown Tudors. Mary I: The First Virgin Queen. David Starkey concludes his two part documentary with an examination of the events that shaped Queen Mary's life and her turbulent five-year reign.
This week's Time Team programmes on Discovery. A TT programme is scheduled for 7.00am and 5.00pm on Saturday 15th.
AND HOORAY! THE DAILY TIME TEAM REPEATS RETURN TO DISCOVERY!!!
Monday A 900-year-old castle in Bridgnorth. Tuesday TR and the Team travel to Canterbury. Wednesday The Team visits historic Winchester. Thursday In Orkney. Friday Investigating the Saxon origins of Ely.
And don't forget - the new channel UKHistory is now in full flow for those with access to digital, satellite or cable.
