Stonehenge TV programme

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CARL C
CARL Sep 8, 2014 07:34:34

A 'heads up' about a two part programme about what lies underneath Stonehenge. I think the first episode is on Thursday - Ch4 - 8/9pm?
Bit vague I know but I left my TV guide at home!

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Sep 8, 2014 07:37:39
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CARL wrote:
A 'heads up' about a two part programme about what lies underneath Stonehenge. I think the first episode is on Thursday - Ch4 - 8/9pm?
Bit vague I know but I left my TV guide at home!
Thanks Carl....they don't even know yet what they have above ground, let alone underneath it :-)

E Evergreen Dazed
Evergreen Dazed Sep 9, 2014 12:42:46
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CARL wrote:
A 'heads up' about a two part programme about what lies underneath Stonehenge. I think the first episode is on Thursday - Ch4 - 8/9pm?
Bit vague I know but I left my TV guide at home!
Hi Carl, heres the BBC link. Looks good, will be watching!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hc5v7

Perhaps they will be revealing more detail about those cursus pits mentioned some time ago?

T tjj
tjj Sep 10, 2014 08:29:17
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CARL wrote:
A 'heads up' about a two part programme about what lies underneath Stonehenge. I think the first episode is on Thursday - Ch4 - 8/9pm?
Bit vague I know but I left my TV guide at home!
This link has some helpful graphics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29126854

The other day I walked from Durrington/Woodhenge to Stonehenge and back along the site of the Cursus. What struck me most was that Stonehenge was designed to be viewed from afar - the walk gave me a far better insight into why Stonehenge is so important than 'getting up close' had ever done before. I will be watching the programme.
PS: Programme is on BBC2 "Operation Stonehenge - What Lies Beneath" - (Thursday at 8.00pm)

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 11, 2014 21:01:02
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aargh.

What was a brilliant opportunity to present some relative new discoveries in a factual way became the usual opinion-as-fact "ceremonial" blah blah blah.

Disappointing, despite the excellent landscapes. And too many hairy CGI people. One of whom was Robert Plant.

H Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Sep 12, 2014 08:05:53
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Ceremonial.

Ritual.

Pink Flint.

H*rse P*ss.

I found some parts of the programme vaguely interesting. For a few minutes the programme seemed to be suggesting that these monumental builders (who were also successful brain surgeons and fairly accurate astronomers) were somehow in awe of bits of pinkish flint. And maybe the whole complex around Stonehenge was there because their ancestors killed a few Aurochs in the vicinity.

As Kate Bush would say... Wow!

As my pal Euan woulkd say... "Mibbes aye.. mibbes naw."

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Sep 18, 2014 18:54:05
Replying to CARL

CARL wrote:
A 'heads up' about a two part programme about what lies underneath Stonehenge. I think the first episode is on Thursday - Ch4 - 8/9pm?
Bit vague I know but I left my TV guide at home!
A further heads-up for part 2 of 2 of 'Operation Stonehenge' tonight at 8pm BBC2

M moss
moss Oct 8, 2014 08:51:30
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CARL wrote:
A 'heads up' about a two part programme about what lies underneath Stonehenge. I think the first episode is on Thursday - Ch4 - 8/9pm?
Bit vague I know but I left my TV guide at home!
An excellent round-up by Mike Pitts on the two programmes; very long but look at the reading list!

http://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/operation-stonehenge-what-the-tv-films-left-out/