Stripping down science, the naked scientists. Hello and welcome to this pre-recorded summer show from the naked scientists with me

Diane O' Carroll where this week I'll be looking back at a year of naked archaeology.

So listen in if you know somebody whose life has been ruined by archaeology.

Many people are drawn to archaeology at a young age only to find themselves skint, bearded,

homeless and with no dress sense and a weakness for real ale in later life.

99% of archaeologists never recover and the other 1% get their own TV show.

And for one radio hour this recovering archaeologist will be taking you through Pompeian

poo.

The fantastic thing about sewage and fickle matter is that we have a

pretty good idea that the things in it were actually consumed. So this is the

great value for this kind of thing at Pompeii.

Andrew Jones, otherwise known as Byrne Jones, the University of York,

has called us investigate at the bottom end of the market.

He loves this kind of stuff, and my former Professor Gordon Hillman used to call this

stuff Pearls beyond price. That's Andy Fairburn he's dropping into the show

to talk about that shortly. Then we'll be discussing the eating part was

bigger better for the Romans.

Yeah there's always these underlying moral connotations about how these really fat people

have let themselves go and are therefore incapable of looking after their state because they can't look after their own bodies.

So I mean there's always this really deep satirical way of approaching obese people in Roman culture.

That's Mark Bradley and he'll be talking all about the concept of copulence and being a little

fatter in the Roman world.

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