Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

This week Neil brings us face to face with the violent, bloody birth of the British Isles. In this episode Neil takes us to Angus, in Scotland to see the breath-taking beauty of the Montrose Basin and evidence of the biggest natural disaster the world has seen in the last 8000 years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neil’s journey across the British Isles, and through its history, continues as he takes us on a walk down one of the oldest streets on the planet. In this episode Neil is confronted with some of the oldest art ever found in Britain. Around 16,000 years ago Creswell Crags, in the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire borders got its latest tenants, a group of hunter gathers who made their homes home with bea...

In this episode, Neil’s journey across the British Isles brings us face to face with a dead body and a case of mistaken identity. In Goat’s Hole Cave, on the Gower Peninsula, Neil uncovers tantalising clues and profound emotions surrounding a grave that is 34,000-year-old - the grave where the remains of the oldest modern human ever found in the British Isles was discovered. Hosted on Acast. See a...

Neil Oliver’s Love Letter to the British Isles begins a million years ago, as he sets off on his journey through time and space to tell the story of the British Isles and how they came to exert a profound influence over the whole world. Neil’s journey starts on the Norfolk coast, in Happisburgh, where he brings us footprint to footprint with evidence of a lost tribe, human, and yet not quite us –...