Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.

Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.

I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.

But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.

I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into

a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to

give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole

new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories

that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds Music, radio, podcasts. Hello, today's story is a bit of an epic. It's been 30 years

in the making and in fact it's still not entirely resolved all this. Let's get into it with my

guest. He's a retired

satellite engineer. His name is Reg Mead and he lives on Jersey. But that isn't where he's

from originally. Let's meet him. Originally I came from Sussex in the Brighton area and I came to

Jersey with the J category which is to more or less teach system work concerned with colour TV.

But up to that point, I worked in the Brighton Lewis area for many years.

Now, your story centres around, essentially it centres around your hobby.

But this was something that you'd done as a little boy back in Sussex.

Yes, how it started.

When I was about 12, I was walking on a place called the Wild Park.

And this particular day I was just wandering up over the downs.

And I suddenly saw all these people on their knees scraping the dirt in an Iron Age camp, which

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