Digging for Britain
North
Season 8 Episode 2 of 4
In Northern Ireland, the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds light on one of the most traumatic periods of modern Irish history, the Great Famine of 1845. A team from Sheffield University want to understand the lives of people who occupied a village near the famous caves at Cresswell Crags in Nottinghamshire, and near Lincoln, a revisit to an Anglo Saxon site near proves rewarding
Digging for Britain airs on BBC Two HD at 8:00 PM, Wednesday 27 November. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
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Alice Roberts
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Naoise Mac Sweeney
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Eamon Hardy
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