26th January 2011, 11:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 26th January 2011, 12:01 PM by Comarch.)
kevin wooldridge Wrote:Good luck to anyone who applies and maybe (if successful) they could wear a BAJR logo on one of the shows.....
Slightly off subject, but concerned wth revamping the show..... I've always thought that what would 'perk-up' Time Team would be to have a couple of 'old lags' sitting in the studio (something similar to the Statler and Waldorf characters in The Muppet Show) commenting on the exploits of those out in the field....not in a hyper critical fashion (well other than where it was deserved), but more as a kind of commentary on the sense of it all i.e 'why don't they put they put the next trench there' or 'why don't they do some multi-element analysis of the soil layers' or 'take some column samples' or 'they shouldn't let that mental environist chew the soil samples' etc etc....
After spending three days up to my a**e in mud that made me laugh Kev. As regards the digging for TT, when I was at MoLA one digger on the Greenwich park program had to explain why he had thrown a rare inscripted slab of stonework onto the spoilheap several times, until he got it right for broadcasting. Terrible. Especially when he got into the office! As to the merits of TT I think that anything that promotes the subject to a general audience is a good thing and students always ask questions about how 'real' it is. It gives us a chance to explain what the real world of archaeology is about in relation to the program.