Rory McGraths Pub Dig

History Documentary hosted by Rory McGrath, published by Channel 5 in 2011 - English narration



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Give comedian Rory McGrath (Two Men in a Trench) a hard hat, team him up with motorbike-riding field archaeologist Paul Blinkhorn, Saxon and Medieval pottery expert, and get them to dig beneath some of the country's oldest pubs. Archaeology, history, banter, beer -- it might just turn out to be a magic formula.
Rory and Paul root around beneath some of the country's oldest boozers to reveal hundreds of years of British history. Enjoying a pint or two on the way, they literally dig up the history of the pub. With their team of experts and noisy excavator machines, they dig up our favourite beer gardens and pub car parks to reveal the juiciest stories from our past. No bone, stone or ale is un-investigated in their tireless search for what makes Britain tick.
But they're not just on a drunken jolly; pubs are often the oldest buildings in our cities and towns and they sit on undisturbed vaults of archaeological treasure. And, being pubs, the sites themselves conceal the evidence of centuries of carousing, violence, revolutionary plots and a vast array of dirty deeds - the juicy bits of British history. The duo digs through time to expose the smuggling, carousing, the plotting and the violence that has shaped Britain's turbulent past.

Series Produced and Directed by Nick Clarke Powell ; An Oxford Scientific Films Production for Channel 5 and HISTORY

1)  The Command House in Chatham
Rory and Paul begin their pub dig journey at the Command House pub in Chatham, Kent, digging through 400 years of naval history in search of Henry VIII's lost Tudor docks and relics from the time of Nelson and the British Empire. Surprisingly, no one has dug here before, so this is completely unchartered territory. As the team begin to dig, they come down on the foundations of a huge Georgian storehouse, once filled with the cannon that armed ships like Nelson's Victory , but the ultimate aim is to find archaeology from the time when Henry VIII and Elizabeth I ruled Britain. Finding the lost dockyard would be a major discovery, as it was where the fleet that destroyed the Spanish Armada in 1588 was based.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L3.1
Video Bitrate: 1 339 kb/s
Video Resolution: 704x400
Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AAC (LC)
Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s VBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 44 min
Number Of Parts: 4
Part Size: 423 MB - 476 MB
Source: PDTV
Encoded by: FTP

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