Recently they seem to have revived the 1960s #bbc concept of "The thinking man's crumpet"
namely attractive and highly intelligent women presenting programmes - the most obvious examples being #BettanyHughes and #AliceRoberts - not to everyone's taste perhaps but somewhat of an improvement on reality TV!
#bbc #bettanyhughes #aliceroberts
Oh and #BettanyHughes has now got to #Ephesus. Sheer bliss for me! I studied this and its #archaeology as part of my honours degree course on the #RomanEmpire and its people. One of my favourite #essays of that course was writing about Ephesus and how it merged #culture and #belief. I remember drafting a version of the essay sitting in Clayton Caravan Park restaurant between #Dairsie and #Guardbridge. #Turkey #AncientHistory #OpenUniversity #Fife #Scotland
#scotland #fife #openuniversity #ancienthistory #turkey #guardbridge #dairsie #belief #culture #essays #romanempire #archaeology #ephesus #bettanyhughes
And #BettanyHughes has just got to #Troy. Bliss! My g..uncle Charles Maclaren, founder and long time editor of The #Scotsman newspaper, was one of the first westerners to suggest the location of the city was #Hisarlik. Which #Schliemann later excavated. I studied Troy in the last year of my #OpenUniversity #history / #ClassicalStudies BA(Hons). #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Archaeology #Homer #Turkey
#turkey #homer #archaeology #familyhistory #genealogy #classicalstudies #history #openuniversity #schliemann #hisarlik #scotsman #troy #bettanyhughes
Watching (recorded) #BettanyHughes in #Lycia, #Turkey, including stone figurines of ancient figures and tombs cut high into the walls. And all I can think of constantly is the #MattSmith #DoctorWho two-part story with #RiverSong, the #WeepingAngels, and the planet that a spaceship crashed into.
#weepingangels #riversong #doctorwho #mattsmith #turkey #lycia #bettanyhughes