World of Stonehenge: Age of Ice
2:10 pm - 3:15 pm, Tuesday, May 19 on PBS America (Freeview) (84)
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Age of Ice
Season 1, Episode 1
Neil Oliver explores the origins of Britain and its people, a story forged over thousands of years. In south Wales, he joins a team of archaeologists to examine 8,000-year-old footprints revealed beneath tidal mud banks, and abseils into a cave dating back 33,000 years. The historian also reveals how, as the last ice age receded some 11,000 years ago, Britain became an island, a fate that was sealed following a cataclysmic tsunami around 6,000 BC
Education/Science/Factual Topics
History
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Did You Know..
Neil Oliver
(Presenter)
Born:
February 21, 1967
in
Renfrewshire
Best Known For:
Coast.
Early-life:
Neil was born in Renfrewshire on February 21, 1967. He went to school in Dumfries, before going on to attend Glasgow University to study archaeology. He worked as a freelance archaeologist before training as a journalist. Oliver's TV debut came in 2002 with BBC Two's Two Men in a Trench, which featured Oliver and close friend Tony Pollard visiting historic British battlefields and recreating the battle situation using state of the art archaeological techniques. In addition to the TV series, Oliver co-wrote the two accompanying books.
Career:
In 2005, Oliver wrote a tie-in book for the Channel 4 documentary Not Forgotten, which featured Ian Hislop. Oliver then became the archaeological and social history expert on Coast and later replaced Nicholas Crane as the show's main presenter. 2006 saw Oliver appear in two more documentary series, Channel 4's The Face of Britain and BBC Two's Scotland's History: The Top Ten. As well as this, in August 2006 he appeared on the special Big Royal Dig edition of Channel 4's Time Team, in which he presented a dig at Holyrood House. His other TV credits include Vikings, Sacred Wonders of Britain, Coast Australia and The Memorial: Beyond the Anzac.
Quote:
'I'd be unwilling to go back to a time that preceded modern dentistry or pain relief. It would be wonderful to see the construction of Stonehenge, but not with an impacted wisdom tooth.'
Trivia:
Oliver is a patron of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers.
Eamon Hardy
(Executive producer)
Cameron Balbirnie
(Series producer)
