11. A Wonder Of The World – Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Neil takes us to a place that is famous around the world and speaks of massive intent.
Constructed with huge stones weighing up to 40 tons and great sarsen trilithons - Stonehenge is truly monumental. It brought our ancestors and their ideas together, tracking the light, the planets and time - and 5000 years after it was begun it's somewhere that still has the power to put you in your place.
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| 0:00.0 | The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday. |
| 0:04.5 | Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize. |
| 0:06.7 | But who will it be? |
| 0:07.7 | Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that. |
| 0:10.6 | Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket. |
| 0:13.1 | Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms |
| 0:17.6 | rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. People felt the need to express the insides of their heads. They had ideas going on that demanded massive expression. |
| 0:37.0 | This week's podcast travels to one of the world's most famous monuments. |
| 0:47.0 | Huge stones weighing up to 40 tons each. |
| 0:51.0 | Great Sarsen trialathons, a place that speaks of massive intent, tracking the light, |
| 1:01.4 | the planets and time. After 5,000 years it still has the power to put us all in our place. I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable |
| 1:19.8 | places that have shaped you, me and the whole world. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. Shiles. |
| 1:45.3 | In the last podcast we walked with the spirits of our ancestors when you took us to Wiltshire and the incredible West Kennett Longborough. Where are we now? |
| 1:49.6 | We're staying in Wiltshire, exploring one of the historical wonders of the world, a place that's still revealing its secrets |
| 1:56.4 | 5,000 years after work on it first began. It's Stonehenge. |
| 2:17.0 | Like most people, I think the first approach to Stonehenge is almost guaranteed to be something other than you would have expected. Everyone approaches it via the A303 and invariably you approach it from a distance and when you first see it the stones are small and most people, myself included first sight you say, oh it's so much smaller than I was expecting. |
| 2:38.0 | But then you park the car and by whatever route you take you finally approach the stones and if you get the opportunity to get close to the stones |
| 2:49.6 | if you get up close say oh, say, close enough to touch them. |
| 2:54.2 | They become overwhelming. |
| 2:58.6 | They have an overwhelming power, even after 5,000 years, they exert a powerful force on the human imagination. |
| 3:22.0 | So you go from, it's a strange experience, I first went to see Stonehenge when I was a second year or |
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