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Last broadcast on Sun, 9 Aug 2009, 20:30 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Series in which Open University associate lecturer Hermione Cockburn leads a team of fossil experts and geologists around different regions of Britain to search for its best fossil treasures and mysteries.
In the east of England, the team go on a fossil hunting challenge on Hunstanton beach and find out how fossils can be discovered right on your doorstep.
They discover the story behind the world's most complete and largest mammoth skeleton, uncovered at West Runton; the scientific answers revealed by the biggest fish that ever lived, discovered on the outskirts of Peterborough; and how fossils can reveal past climates.
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Have you found a rock and want to know what it is? Would you like to know more about how the rocks which make up the British Isles developed?
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Credits
- Presenter
- Hermione Cockburn
- Executive Producer
- Fiona Pitcher
Broadcasts
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Thu 25 Sep 200819:30
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Fri 26 Sep 200801:00
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Fri 26 Sep 200802:30
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Sun 28 Sep 200819:00
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Fri 21 Nov 200819:00
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Fri 21 Nov 200823:35
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Tue 25 Nov 200819:00
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Sun 9 Aug 200920:30
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