Beneath the waves – Europe’s lost world
On the first day of this year’s Festival of British Archaeology, BBC Radio 4 will be airing a special programme exploring Europe’s lost world – Doggerland – a land lost beneath the waves of the North Sea, which is the focus of a fascinating book recently published by the CBA.
‘Doggerland’ is the name for a huge area that, ten thousand years ago, before the end of the last Ice Age, linked the British Isles with Denmark and Northern Germany, a time when the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine.
Besides speaking to archaeologists who are investigating Doggerland, Helen Mark, of Radio 4’s Open Country will be joined by the storyteller Hugh Lupton who imagines the myths of those long-lost hunter-gatherers.
The programme will be aired as follows:
- BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 18th July at 6.00am
- repeated on Thursday 23rd at 3.00pm
- will be on the BBC iPlayer for quite some time after that date.
- Europe’s Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland
- by Vincent Gaffney, Simon Fitch and David Smith
- CBA Research Report 160, ISBN: 978-1-902771-77-9
- 232pp, 125 full colour illus, March 2009
- Price £15 GBP
- Buy now
