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Digging for Britain

Season 8 2019
TV-14

  • 2019-11-20T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 4h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

4 episodes

Season Premiere

2019-11-20T20:00:00Z

8x01 West

Season Premiere

8x01 West

  • 2019-11-20T20:00:00Z1h

Archaeological discoveries with Professor Alice Roberts. In the Cotswolds, a secret location, which appears to be a high-status Anglo Saxon cemetery, gives up a very precious and fragile artefact.

2019-11-27T20:00:00Z

8x02 North

8x02 North

  • 2019-11-27T20:00:00Z1h

More than is expected is found in the remains of a house thought to be the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey. Plus the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds new light on the Great Famine of 1845.

2019-12-04T20:00:00Z

8x03 South

8x03 South

  • 2019-12-04T20:00:00Z1h

How a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8000-year-old neolithic settlement. And Naoise Mac Sweeney visits a construction site as it gives up the secrets of its Elizabethan past.

Season Finale

2019-12-11T20:00:00Z

8x04 WWII Special

Season Finale

8x04 WWII Special

  • 2019-12-11T20:00:00Z1h

The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.

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