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unusual facts about Timewatch: Roman Soldiers to be.



Angie Hobbs

She is a frequent contributor to TV and radio programmes, including contributions to television shows like BBC Two's Timewatch special "Atlantis: The Evidence" and the National Geographic Channel's "Finding Atlantis", and numerous appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg.

Berry Pomeroy

The castle has often been cited as being the most haunted castle in Britain, and has appeared in a BBC Timewatch documentary "White Slaves and Pirate Gold", and the British television show Most Haunted.

Bettany Hughes

Atlantis: the Evidence (2010): A Timewatch special about the lost continent being the volcanic island of Santorini

Bristol Channel floods, 1607

A BBC programme exploring the theory, The Killer Wave of 1607, was made as part of the Timewatch series.

Cardenden

The duel was the subject of an episode of Timewatch on BBC television, broadcast on 9 February 2007 entitled "The Last Duel".

Claude de Baissac

As explained by Paddy Ashdown in a BBC Timewatch documentary, due to "a Whitehall cock-up of major proportions", de Baissac was preparing to take explosives on board German ships in the harbor of Bordeaux when he heard explosions from the partly successful Operation Frankton.

Daingean

A bog body, given the name Old Croghan Man, was found near Daingean in 2004 and featured on the BBC Two Timewatch programme in January 2006.

Henry Metelmann

After the publication of Through Hell for Hitler he was the subject of a 60 minute BBC Two Timewatch documentary broadcast on 5 December 2003.

Richard Attree

Attree's credits include music for Horizon, Wildlife on One, Timewatch, Hardware, Watt on Earth, and the first three series of The Demon Headmaster.

The Bridge over the River Kwai

On a BBC Timewatch programme, a former prisoner at the camp states that it is unlikely that a man like the fictional Nicholson could have risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel; and if he had, he would have been "quietly eliminated" by the other prisoners.

The Tomb of God

The book became the focus of a BBC 2 Timewatch documentary "The History of a Mystery" shown in September 1996, in which the authors faced difficult questions over their theories.

Warrior Challenge

The series followed from social history documentaries on UK television based on historical reconstructions, including the 2001 series Timewatch: Roman Soldiers to be. and Surviving the Iron Age, a 2001 update of the original 1978 experiment in Iron Age living Living in the Past.

William Lummis

In his 98th year, he appeared in a BBC television programme, Timewatch, recounting his memories of meeting survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade.


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