25th February 2006, 12:53 PM
It was kind of done in the Time Team special on the Whitfriars Canterbury excavations. I'm sure it didn't intend to reveal as many warts as it did though!
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25th February 2006, 01:25 PM
I can see where you're coming from, but the last thing it would do is sell commercialarchaeology to the public!
I would think a more balanced traditional documentary looking at all angles would present a more forceful case. We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
25th February 2006, 01:50 PM
oh i don't know - we are a pretty colourful bunch
 but i think there needs to be something a bit different, something based on urban commercial archaeology? presenting the whole process from the developers point of view, to the archaeologists, the general public - right from deciding where a new development is to occur, through to what the archaeologists found, what happened to what was found, what this tells us about said city and what is there now as a result. I know it would proberly never work and is wishful thinking but it was just an idea inspired by a few bored/demoralised diggers on a rainy day in a quarry in the middle of nowhere! "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
25th February 2006, 02:06 PM
Oh right, yes, I see what you mean, the whole shabang. Sorry, I thought you meant just the muddy on-site bit.
Yes, absolutely. The antidote to Time Team! It would make a great mini-series - one of those fly-on-the-wall things like they did for traffic wardens and hotel people. We owe the dead nothing but the truth. 
25th February 2006, 02:19 PM
There was a BBC Chronicle programme in the early 80s about the Billingsgate excavations which showed both the excavation and post-excavation processes and also the meetings with the developers (or 'property speculators' as they were called in those days).
The most memorable scene was when the muddy diggers were gathered round besuited man stabding on box, who announced that the site had been granted an extension of several months. It is rumoured that there was at least 2 takes of this scene because first time round said muddy diggers refused to applaud!! More recently the Time Team special from Ely presented the most accurate portrayal of winter-time fenland archaeology (which must have deterred at least three-years worth of archaeology students from ever wanting to get their hands dirty) and it would have been nice to have seen the un-broadcast footage of the Gresham Street excavations, particularly that featuring the site directors glove puppets!! Msrcus Brigstock's 'We are History' is of course the greatest and most accurate archaeological programme ever.
25th February 2006, 04:50 PM
Quote:quote:Msrcus Brigstock's 'We are History' is of course the greatest and most accurate archaeological programme ever Agreed. |
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