Digging for Britain (series 8)

BBC4

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: EAMON HARDY, RORY WHEELER

SERIES PRODUCER: PAUL OLDING

Prof Alice Roberts returns with Digging for Britain, featuring archaeological digs and a treasure trove of exciting and unusual finds from around the country plus a special edition looking at the archaeology of the Second World War.  

Packed with insight and revelation and spanning over 10,000 years of British history, highlights of a bumper year include the discovery of Lady Jane Grey’s childhood home, a Saxon cemetery rich in unusual grave goods, a stone age settlement now lying underwater and a V2 rocket in a famers field.