Somebody has been very naughty, and has stuck onto YouTube an extract from Friday night's BBC2 documentary about the wondrous giant stone circle and the nail-biting search for it across the Wild West of Wales by the great circle hunter and his merry gang......
Embargo well and truly busted......
As for the snippet itself......Oh dear oh dear -- how many times before have we seen this sort of "reconstruction" involving willing volunteers, a lump of stone, a sledge, some nice modern ropes, and a convenient flat patch of grassy turf? Surely Alice has seen all of this a thousand times before? If this is the level of science or experimental archaeology that we can expect in the documentary, we are in for a difficult hour of watching..........
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Notwithstanding the lack of evidence of human transportation of Preseli stone blocks to the west country, this excercise (and other past similar exercises) just shows how ridiculous the notion is.
Agree -- YouTube is full of videos of virtually identical experiments -- and nearly all conducted on some convenient lawn or nicely mown flat field. These people live in their own little fantasy worlds, and have clearly never looked at the West Wales landscape.......
I see this programme has both a Producer, Peter Chinn, AND an Executive Producer, Steve Warr. Wonder what their previous productions have been? Must see whether it is possible to discover these.....
Tomos TV (Cardiff based) and Raw Cut are smallish TV companies specialising in crime and police documentaries. This one about "the lost circle" seem to be a bit of a departure for them......
....also it has a Production Manager, Louise Binding who worked on the BBC's The Secrets of Scott's Hut, with Ben Fogle. And it also has an Editor, Sarjit Bains.
All 4 have interesting backgrounds.
Let's hope that the programme isn't too full of edge - of - the - seat thriller-fuelled Indiana Jones adrenalin! What we don't need, Mr Pearson, is another case of 'never mind the quality, feel the width.....'
Watching it now, tearing my hair out, what? It's the quarry because someone ate some hazelnuts there? Alice Roberts, I thought you were made of better stuff than this ..... my wife says I cannot shout at the TV, I am on my best behaviour watching this shite.
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