Doggerland
Helen Mark explores the history of Doggerland, a land lost beneath the waves near Craster on the Northumbrian coast, with archaeologists and storyteller Hugh Lupton.
Helen Mark explores a land lost beneath the waves off the Northumbrian coast.
Γ’ΒΒDoggerlandΓ’ΒΒ 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, she is joined by the storyteller Hugh Lupton who imagines the myths of those long-lost hunter-gatherers.
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- Sat 18 Jul 2009 06:07ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Thu 23 Jul 2009 15:02ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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