Tonight we're joined by a special guest, Alex Sutheran.

Alex is an archaeologist, he's an historian, and he's also a wargamer, with a hugely

successful YouTube channel on that subject called Storm of Steel.

I first met Alex in a working man's club in Mexborough in 2019, I think,

when he gave a talk on his work in conflict archaeology,

and I followed his channel online since he started it during that COVID period

when we all did kind of different things.

So in this possibly unique chat, we're going to take our discussion from the battlefield

to the tabletop. So welcome Alex.

Very much, Paul. It's a pleasure to be here. It's an honour, in fact. It's not just a pleasure. Well, the honour's all mine, though, chap, because I've been looking for an excuse to kind of get a bit of wargaming into this podcast, because it's, you know, it's one of those kind of levels, I think, of histories I'm sure we'll kind of come on to. But kind of looking back to where I first came across you, even before I met you in that

working man's club in Mexborough, I remember you in the series Finding the Fallen. So your

background really is in archaeology, Alex, isn't it? I wonder if you can tell us how you

ended up following that path. Absolutely. I mean, I'm a professional archaeologist.

I currently work for the Ministry of Defense.

Well, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, but no one's ever heard of that.

So I just mentioned it's the Ministry Defence because everyone knows who that is.

So I'm an archaeologist that covers the North and Scotland and looks after the Rangers basically where the military train.

So I've been an archaeologist.

This is my job at the moment, but I've been an archaeologist for over 20 years now.

I think I started in field archaeology back in 2001.

Prior to that, I was at university, did a degree at York.

Prior to that, I'd just really just done one or two days here and there as an archaeologist.

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