The Raising of the Mary Rose
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
King Henry VIII's favourite warship sank during a naval battle over 400 years ago. But the wreck and its contents were preserved in silt for centuries and finally raised to the surface in October 1982. Susan Hulme has spoken to Christopher Dobbs, one of the archaeologists who helped excavate the Mary Rose while she lay on the sea bed, and who is still uncovering its secrets today.
Photo: A reconstruction of the Mary Rose, in full sail. Copyright: BBC.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Cladie Aide. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:24.9 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to |
| 0:32.1 | watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:36.5 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:41.5 | telly we share what we've been watching. |
| 0:43.7 | Cladie Aide! |
| 0:45.7 | Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:48.2 | Lovely. |
| 0:49.0 | Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:51.2 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:54.7 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello and welcome to |
| 1:00.8 | this edition of the Witness Podcast, History Told by the People Who Are There. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm Susan Hume and today I'm taking you back to October 1982, when 60 million people |
| 1:12.3 | worldwide watched an extraordinary feat on live television, |
| 1:16.7 | the raising of the 400-year-old wreck of a Tudor warship, the Mary rose from the seabed |
| 1:22.4 | off the south coast of England. |
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