World of Stonehenge: Age of Cosmology
3:55 pm - 5:05 pm, Saturday, April 11 on PBS America (Freeview) (84)
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Age of Cosmology
Season 1, Episode 3
Neil Oliver delves into the mysteries of the Stone Age and the meaning of the sacred monuments that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. He begins by visiting a 6,000-year-old axe factory in the Lake District to explore how the use of stone shaped a belief system that included the cosmos for the first time. The historian also joins people arriving in Stonehenge to celebrate the mid-summer sunrise, and learns about the religious and sociological significance of the monument
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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.
Cameron Balbirnie
(Series producer)
Eamon Hardy
(Executive producer)
