18. The Dover Boat, Kent
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 β’ 1K Ratings
ποΈ 21 September 2020
β±οΈ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Neil takes us on board the oldest known seagoing boat in the world β the Dover Boat.
Next door to the White Cliffs of Dover, one of the most unmistakeable, and instantly recognisable landmarks in the whole of the British Isles, Neil comes face to face with what for him, is one the most extraordinary artefacts he has ever seen. An incredible bit of ancient kit that was made by Bronze Age shipbuilders and used, by our ancestors, to travel and trade across the channel - Neil brings the Dover Boat to life.
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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. All the hairs went up on my neck and on my arms and I felt as if I wasn't with something. I felt briefly as if I was in that |
| 0:37.0 | cabinet with someone. In this podcast we're setting sail in an incredible bit of ancient kit which quite simply has the power to take your breath away |
| 0:59.2 | Found by chance and rescued in the nick of time. Built with ancient techniques and astonishing skill, strong and proud, with an amazing story to tell, the oldest |
| 1:08.4 | known seagoing boat in the whole world. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me, and the whole world. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my to Wales to the largest known prehistoric copper mine on the planet |
| 1:40.8 | a mine that helped power the world's Bronze Age. Where are we this week? |
| 1:46.0 | Today we're going to one of the most unmistakable and instantly recognizable landmarks in the whole of the British Isles, |
| 1:54.4 | which is to say the White Cliffs of Dover. However, we're here not to see the place but an object, a magical artifact with amazing presence. |
| 2:07.8 | It's called for the longest ferry port. |
| 2:19.0 | It's obviously for the longest times a very important and instantly familiar point of destination |
| 2:26.4 | and departure for people coming and going because it's our half of the narrowest crossing |
| 2:31.2 | to mainland Europe. Dover Cal Kali, everybody knows about it. |
| 2:35.3 | And Dover has mattered, has been important for thousands of years at least. |
| 2:41.0 | Okay, it's always been how people, once the Sturega slide had happened, once we were an archipelago with water in between us and |
| 2:48.6 | the continent which happened 8,000 years ago, people have had to come to us over the water and the shortest water journey |
| 2:55.9 | is between Calais and Dover okay so Dover's just always been it's it's embedded in |
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