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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

2. Mistaken Identity - West Glamorgan

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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.


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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 There are places in the landscape where you get a physical sense of the great age of the world,

0:35.0

where the whole artifice of the modern world is scraped away,

0:40.0

and the headland of rock at Pavland which is called Yellow Top on a kind of the of

0:45.8

the lichen that grows on it is one of those places you get a sense that the world is

0:50.9

old there.

1:01.0

This week's podcast is the story of a world changing discovery. A dead body decorated and adorned with tantalizing clues, a story of mistaken

1:09.0

identity, a man on a mission from God, dangerous beasts, ice half a mile thick, love and tenderness.

1:20.0

I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me, and the whole world.

1:29.0

I'm Neil Oliver, and this is my love letter to the Norfolk Coast.

1:46.0

Where's the next stop?

1:48.0

The second place that's for me unforgettable is Goats Hole Cave, which is a Pavland on the Gower

1:56.8

Peninsula in South Wales.

2:01.3

There's a cave in yellow top near the bottom that you can only really access from above.

2:07.3

You can climb up to it, but it's more usually accessed from above with ropes, and it's called Goats Hole Cave and it was to

2:16.2

that location that an eccentric churchman come scientist called the Reverend

2:21.9

William Buckland came in the third week in January

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