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Alan gets under the skin of the much misunderstood Neanderthal man, examines relics from the past and discovers that an ice sheet covering most of Britain stopped at London's Finchley Road tube sta...tion. Armed with a geologist's microphone, he eavesdrops on the groans of a Norwegian glacier. In Trafalgar Square, 19th century builders found an extraordinary collection of bones, including those of hippos, hyenas and lions, demonstrating that the Ice Age was not unrelentingly cold.
Alan gets under the skin of the much misunderstood Neanderthal man, examines relics from the past and discovers that an ice sheet covering most of Britain stopped at London's Finchley Road tube sta...tion. Armed with a geologist's microphone, he eavesdrops on the groans of a Norwegian glacier. In Trafalgar Square, 19th century builders found an extraordinary collection of bones, including those of hippos, hyenas and lions, demonstrating that the Ice Age was not unrelentingly cold.
| Series: | British Isles: A Natural History. |
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| First transmission date: | 13-10-2004 |
| Published: | 2004 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:00 |
| Note: | This programme contains a 10 minute 'Landscape Detectives' section looking at the natural history of the east of England. |
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| Producer: | Michael Gunton |
| Contributors: | Richard Daniel; Holger Kessler; Peter Lamley; Nigel Larkin; Alan Titchmarsh |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/naturalhistory/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Archaeology--Great Britain; Natural history--Great Britain |
| Production number: | NINH20262 |
| Available to public: | no |
