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Time Team
''Time Team'' is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4, Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. It returned in 2022 on online platforms YouTube and Patreon. Created by television producer Tim Taylor (producer), Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode features a team of specialists carrying out an archaeology, archaeological Excavation (archaeology), dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in lay terms. The specialists changed throughout the programme's run, although it consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding (archaeologist), Phil Harding. The sites excavated ranged in date from the Palaeolithic to the Second World War. In October 2012, Channel 4 announced that the final series would be broadcast in 2013. Series 20 was screened from January–March 2013 and nine Time Team (spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Harding (archaeologist)
Philip Harding DL FSA (born 25 January 1950) is a British field archaeologist. He became a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series '' Time Team''. Harding trained on various excavations with the Bristol University Extra Mural Department and other bodies from 1966; he has been a professional archaeologist since 1971. Life and career Early life Born in Oxford on 25 January 1950 and brought up in Wexcombe, Wiltshire, Harding was educated at Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School in Marlborough. As a young boy, he became fascinated with the Stone Age. He learned flint-knapping from his uncle, Fred, and in only a few months became a skilled knapper, crafting many hunting tools from pieces of flint. He made his first archaeological finds digging up his parents' garden, much to the annoyance of his mother, Elsie. In 1966, while still at school, he attended a training excavation by Bristol University Extra Mural Department in Fyfield and West Overton. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Taylor (producer)
Professor Timothy Taylor is a British television producer best known for his work as the originator and producer of Channel 4's archaeology series ''Time Team''. He is an executive producer for '' Time Team America''. Taylor spent five years teaching, including two years VSO in Thailand, after completing a degree at the University of Birmingham and a PGCE at the University of Exeter. On leaving teaching he set up a company which specialised in producing educational programmes for schools. Today, Taylor is an independent writer and producer of archaeology programmes. He devised the format for Channel 4's ''Time Team'', which was developed from an earlier Channel 4 series '' Time Signs'', first broadcast in 1991. Produced by Taylor, it featured Mick Aston and Phil Harding, who both went on to appear on ''Time Team''. He also produced the spin-off series '' History Hunters'', '' Time Team Digs'' and '' Time Team Live''. Taylor is a Visiting Industrial Professor for the Public U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Gaffney (archaeologist)
Christopher F. Gaffney (born 14 June 1962) is a British archaeological geophysicist and is Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Bradford. Gaffney's research interests are based on understanding how geophysical data can aide archaeology in the understanding of the life and culture of ancient peoples. In pursuing these research goals he has pursued research in challenging environments where technical excellence and novel methodological approaches can lead to enhanced interpretation of the past. In doing so, Gaffney has undertaken research and managed surveys within Britain and across the world. These have included research projects across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Significant research projects include his work as part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, research on World Heritage Sites at Diocletian’s Palace, Split, in Croatia and at Fountains Abbey, UK, the Greek colony at Megara Hyblaea (Sicily) and ancient Cyrene in Libya. Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Team America
''Time Team America'' is an American television series that airs on PBS. It premiered on July 8, 2009. It is an Oregon Public Broadcasting adaptation of the British show ''Time Team'', produced in collaboration with Channel 4, which commissioned the original show, in which a team of archeologists and other experts are given 72 hours to excavate an historic site. The U.S. version features "freelance and university-affiliated experts homostly join existing excavations ... ndarrive with resources that the archaeologists already on the case usually can’t afford and specific questions that, if answered, will advance the understanding of the site." A second season was announced on October 18, 2011, scheduled to shoot during the summer of 2012 and to air in 2013. On December 20, 2011, PBS announced that Justine Shapiro would host the second season. Episodes When PBS introduced a video player on its website in mid-April 2009, an episode of ''Time Team America'' became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Team Digs
''Time Team Digs'' is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 2002. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the show is a spin-off of the archaeology series ''Time Team'', that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. It is also known as ''Time Team Digs: A History of Britain''. ''Time Team Digs'' is an eight-part series including highlights from previous ''Time Team'' digs, with each episode focusing on a particular period in history, going from the Bronze Age to the modern day. Production and cast The series producer of ''Time Team Digs'' was Tim Taylor, the creator and producer of ''Time Team'' and its predecessor '' Time Signs''. The executive producer was Philip Clarke and the producers were Jeremy Cross and Laurence Vulliamy. Tony Robinson, the presenter, was also the associate producer. Regular contributors on Time Team included: archaeologists Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Carenza Lewis, Neil Holbrook; Robin Bush (historian); Victor Ambrus (illustrator); Stew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Hunters
''History Hunters'' is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 from 1998 to 1999. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the show was a spin-off of the archaeology series ''Time Team'', first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1994. The series is also known as ''Time Team: History Hunters''. Each episode of ''History Hunters'' featured people trying to discover more about an area and its history. Production The programme's producer was Tim Taylor, the creator of '' Time Signs'' and executive producer of ''Time Team''. Episodes There were seven episodes of ''History Hunters'' shown on Saturdays from 21 November 1998 to 16 January 1999. Each episode features three teams trying to investigate the history of a community by using resources that are available to anyone. The teams have only two days to find out as much as they can. They have the help of a team of experts. The episode looking at malting in Marshfield, South Gloucestershire was shot as the pilot in February 1998, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Team Extra
''Time Team Extra'' is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1998. Presented by Robin Bush, it was a companion programme to the archaeology series ''Time Team'', that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. ''Time Team Extra'' is an eight-part series, with each episode accompanying an episode of ''Time Teams fifth series. The episodes looked more into the history of the site being excavated. Production The location footage for the series was filmed across the UK and Ireland, including Hampton Court Palace, Jorvik Viking Centre, Stonehenge and Mellifont Abbey. The interviews with the guest were filmed at Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire, in the library of Benjamin Disraeli. Episodes Each episode of ''Time Team Extra'' is thirty minutes long and originally aired from 11 January to 8 March 1998 on Channel 4. In each episode, historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Signs
''Time Signs'' is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1991. Presented by Mick Aston, the series tells the story of a Devon valley throughout history. Phil Harding does some reconstruction archaeology. The series was narrated by Ray Brooks. ''Time Signs'' was later developed into ''Time Team'', the long-running archaeology television programme that aired from 1994 to 2014. ''Time Team'' has the same producer and also features Mick Aston and Phil Harding. Production ''Time Signs'' was created in 1988 when producer Tim Taylor asked Mick Aston to present ''Time Signs'', a history and archaeology series that tells the story of Wolf Valley in Devon. Aston asked archaeologist Phil Harding to do some reconstruction archaeology. ''Time Signs'' was filmed at what is now the Roadford Reservoir in Devon. Episodes The four thirty-minute episodes aired from 30 June to 21 July 1991 on Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Time Team Episodes
The following is a list of episodes of ''Time Team'', a British television/web programme about archaeology, that aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to, , accessed 31 December 20147 September 2014. In 2022 Time Team returned on YouTube, with Series 21 onwards presented by Gus Casely-Hayford. It was first made available, on 18 March 2022. It was followed by Series 22, in 2023 which also featured a brand new special episode, Digging Band of Brothers, which was presented by a returning Tony Robinson. The episode numbers follow the order of the first transmission. Episodes Pilot Se ...
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YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including Television advertisement, advertising. It began its transmission in 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC1 and BBC2, and a single commercial broadcasting network, ITV (TV network), ITV. Originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Settlers (band)
The Settlers were an English folk-oriented music group, originally from the English West Midlands, who formed in the mid-1960s. The band folded in the early 1980s, relaunched in 2018, and disbanded again in 2021. Formation and genre The group started as a trio, but almost immediately expanded by adding a bassist to their line-up. The original members were: * Cynthia "Cindy" Kent MBE (vocals and tambourine), born 7 August 1945, Oldbury, Worcestershire; * Mike Jones (vocals and guitar), born Michael Edwin Jones, 16 September 1943, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, died 11 May 2008, Exeter, Devon; * John Fyffe (banjo), born 3 July 1943, Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; * Mansel Davies (double bass), born 22 March 1942, Newquay, Cornwall. The Settlers were initially known as the Birmingham Folk Four, in July 1963 but became known as the Settlers after the relative success of their first single, "Settle Down". A six-month residency on a BBC television series, ''Singalong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
