DIARY: VISIT / WATCH / LISTEN / TASTE
WATCH
Cold storage
It was the find of a lifetime. Four years ago, while out walking round a recently dug gravel pit near Swindon, amateur fossil hunters Sally and Neville Holling-worth noticed the top of a fossilised leg bone of a mammoth.
Subsequent excavations of the site have revealed a mammoth graveyard in the prehistoric riverbed of the Thames. While researching the site will take years, the dig has unearthed evidence that may point to the idea of Neanderthals butchering the creatures with stone tools.
As Sir David Attenborough relates in a new BBC One documentary, these are discoveries that offer us the rarest of glimpses into life in the Ice Ages, more than 200,000 years ago.
Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard
BBC One / Thursday 30 December
LISTEN
Points in time
In 2022 the BBC marks its centenary, and we can expect a season of programming across the
