Surviving the Iron Age
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Twinkle | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 09:46 pm     I stumbled across Surviving the Iron Age last Thursday on PBS. For some reason it wasn't listed in my newspaper's programming schedule. If you enjoyed Frontier House, I think you'll like this show. It's very much like Frontier House, but *heh* obviously replicated life during a much earlier time. Originally broadcast on BBC, their site's description says: "Surviving the Iron Age was an experiment in living history. Seventeen volunteers, including three children, spent seven weeks experiencing life as it might have been in an Iron Age hillfort in West Wales." Unlike Frontier House, these poor folks apparently weren't equipped beforehand with an in depth exploration of the skills they needed to survive. Within less than a week food poisoning was going around from eating undercooked chicken and several men had literally collapsed from exhaustion. Hauling water a rather long distance was a huge frustration, but the charming outdoor privy was close to a handy supply of leaves. The show is scheduled on PBS on Thursdays. To look at the BBC STIA pages click >>> here. |
Kiersten_Love | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 01:39 pm     Twinkle, do you happen to know if it is a continuing show every Thursday? Also, do yo uknow where I can find a schedule on this? Thanks |
Twinkle | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 11:21 pm     Kiersten- I assumed STIA was a national PBS offering, just went to see what I could find and their web site doesn't mention it. I entered my zip code in the PBS local schedule search engine and discovered that it's something our local affiliate, GPTV, is offering. Darn it. Sorry for the misinformation. |
Car54 | Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 04:56 pm     I just watched 2 hours of this on my PBS station, and it is awesome! It reminds me a lot of 1900 House and the Frontier House shows earlier this year. They got 4 days of food, and really basic equipment...and off they go. Amazing how hard it was for these people just to survive! Plenty of little petty conflicts between them too! |
Misslibra | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 06:43 pm     This comes on once a week every thursday? If it's like FH I would be very interested in seeing it. I guess I should check and make sure PBS in my area is showing it. |
Misslibra | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 06:51 pm     I just check the PBS site and I don't even see it listed on PBS? |
Car54 | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 12:51 am     Misslibra, I would check your local PBS site. It is on WGBH Boston in my area, but it must not be on all the stations. I watched part of it again on Sunday night, and here the first episode was repeated Monday. |
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