Dig 1940 BBC1 - Final Transmission Details

Bumpety Dump Dump - 30 minutes to go

 

Its a pity they arent running more than 30 mins it seems to be flitting from one story to the other too quickly.

 

Unfortunately its rare for anything factual to be on BBC1 at prime time for more than30 mins. We would have liked more, but it wasn't possible.

Next series will be longer episodes.

 

Very good show tonight

 

Ah another series that is good news.

 

Next one will cover the whole war but focussing on NW Europe and Italy.

 

Well done Paul and the crew very well done series.

 

Finally got around to watching the last one of three.

As already as been mentioned great stuff. I was quite surprised to hear that Hull was the 2nd most bombed city and even more so to see it has the only remaining bombed ruin from the blitz in the country.

Great stuff and roll on the second series.

 

Just watched all 3 episodes, very interesting.

Cheers
Paul

 

Just watched the first one.
Shame no mention of the crew of the Dornier or the Stuka. Did they manage to survive? As they was no mention of any remains in the dig. I take it if they was any chance of remains then it would make the dig far more complicated?
Has Steve Vizard ran out of aircraft to dig in the UK? I'm sure he's dug every BofB site.

 

Yes, no remains in any of the aircraft, it makes getting permission much harder.

The fine detail was very much missing from this series, which we regret, but it is a necessity in 30 minute programmes commissioned for BBC1.

Next time it will be BBC2 and a little more detail.

No, Steve has a few more digs up his sleeve as you will see next time!

 

Yes, no remains in any of the aircraft, it makes getting permission much harder.

The fine detail was very much missing from this series, which we regret, but it is a necessity in 30 minute programmes commissioned for BBC1.

Next time it will be BBC2 and a little more detail.

No, Steve has a few more digs up his sleeve as you will see next time!


Thanks Paul.

 

Just watching the second and third parts.

The Moorhouse story was heartbreaking, fantastic record keeping and photos by the family. The colour footage was amazing to watch.
Never seems right to me to see a big digger ripping up aircraft remains (although practical). Seeing someone removing mud from an Jumo engine with a spade just seemed heavy handed - this is history after all.

 

I'm sure it looks that way and I can't really comment as I'm not an aviation specialist or archaeologist, however these guys have been working on these types of digs for 30+ years so I would hope they know what they are doing and the tools etc required.

 

I'm sure it looks that way and I can't really comment as I'm not an aviation specialist or archaeologist, however these guys have been working on these types of digs for 30+ years so I would hope they know what they are doing and the tools etc required.

They are the experts. Very good progs.