Hello and welcome to this very special interview where I should be talking about the prehistory of Britain and what the British people are.

And I am delighted to be joined by Tom Rausel, aka Survive the Bloody Jive. How are you, sir?

Very good, thanks, folks. Good to be back.

No, it's great to have you.

Yeah, good to see you.

I love having conversations with you. It's always, it's always brilliant. I love to be in the presence of someone whose knowledge. It's far

deeper than mine, so I should be picking your brain here, if anything. Oh, you know a lot

about many things I don't know about, so it's not true altogether, but. So let's kick off.

Would you want to talk about just the, the, the history of the ancient peoples of these islands?

Sure.

So a long, long time ago, maybe, you know, talking 900,000, between 800,000 a million years ago, there was a land bridge with Europe.

This is like many ice ages ago. This is when there were sort of primitive mammoths, long, long time ago.

So there have been creatures here, whether they were pre-human creatures or not, for that long.

However, the story is only really of any proper interest, isn't it, when we get up to, what, something like 13,000 years?

Yeah.

Something like that.

We have...

The first rock art and stuff.

The Mesolithic is a warm period following the Ice Age and there have been different human beings

and also other hominid species living on what's now the island of Britain before, you know,

in the Ice Age and before.

But only the ones that we have any like significant ancestry from.

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