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There was an announcement back in March but then I heard no more about it and given the programme's contentious nature among some on here, I felt it best not to mention it. Then last night I got an email from a pal about it. My heart soared like a hawk! This confirmation is the find some of us have been waiting for! Can things get any better this year?

'83 Tizer

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/old-soda-pop-top-clip-path-6197655.jpg

Mint Viscount ‘75

http://i31.twenga.com/food-and-drink/chocolate-biscuits/viscount-biscuit-e-liquid-tp_4498619396861957107f.jpg

Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins 69

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RsCCizsWvNw/TLN_epXPusI/AAAAAAAALGw/JGzX6g--FEw/s1600/Man+in+Flight+Coins.jpg

Bring it on. I'm gonna put a record on my record player and turn the volume up.

https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Flynn-Detectorists/release/6925479

Ooo-errr, maybe I'll leave that vinyl unplayed and in mint condition...

Howburn Digger wrote:
There was an announcement back in March but then I heard no more about it and given the programme's contentious nature among some on here, I felt it best not to mention it. Then last night I got an email from a pal about it. My heart soared like a hawk! This confirmation is the find some of us have been waiting for! Can things get any better this year?

'83 Tizer

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/old-soda-pop-top-clip-path-6197655.jpg

Mint Viscount ‘75

http://i31.twenga.com/food-and-drink/chocolate-biscuits/viscount-biscuit-e-liquid-tp_4498619396861957107f.jpg

Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins 69

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RsCCizsWvNw/TLN_epXPusI/AAAAAAAALGw/JGzX6g--FEw/s1600/Man+in+Flight+Coins.jpg

Bring it on. I'm gonna put a record on my record player and turn the volume up.

https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Flynn-Detectorists/release/6925479

Ooo-errr, maybe I'll leave that vinyl unplayed and in mint condition...

To those who's hobby is detecting, the opening scene to series 1 absolutely nails it. I've spent days on end out digging up ring pulls, fencing staples, broken plough bits, tin foil, nails, rusty bars and all the metal waste buried over the years. Not found anything of historic value yet just the odd modern coin but absolutely love the hobby.

https://youtu.be/i4lFBAq1g10

'I'm with the ghosts of the men who can never sing again'

Thanks for the links, whatever one's feelings, those two 'losers' pulled at the heartstrings as they plodded round the fields finding ring pulls. It was almost Shakespearan the programme.

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Johnny-Flynn/Detectorists-Original-Soundtrack-from-the-TV-Series

Howburn Digger wrote:
given the programme's contentious nature among some on here
Actually, I praised it a lot, on several occasions, but I also complained about several damaging messages. Seems fair. In particular, the lack of a clear message about recording finds.

As for lyrical songs, here's something that would do more good (although once again I'll be accused of being a "spoilsport" and conducting a "moral vendetta". (I don't give a toss, it's a brilliant programme giving some bad messages and I'm blowed if I'll pretend otherwise to avoid nonsense on here...)

"Here I lie, no longer flesh or even dust.
Yet here I lie, in signs that tell
That once there was a man
Like you. Who lived and laughed.
I am no less than you, for having gone,
Nor are my rights the less.
I am a man like you and ask
Only that my life is not denied.
Yet here you dig, in blind and selfish haste,
Smashing every clue but one
Because it glints a little
And feeds your avaricious taste.
Now, that is all I am,
That bling within your grubby palm.
What now? What will you do
To save me from oblivion?
Take it home in secret? Make it shine?
Show it to your mates with swelling pride?
Claim a right to hoard a husk of history
As if to say that history is yours to hide?"

;)