Living in the Past (1978 Iron Age reality tv) - part 4

In 1978 12 adults and 3 children were selected from around 1000 volunteers for the first 'reality tv' series by living for a year on an Iron Age farm as Iron Age people. This film looks back at the original shows and what has happened to them in the 30 years since then.

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/583427/

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• 1978

[scarletharlot69]

Give me that Old Time Religion!!!!

[750triton]

I'd love the opportunity they had

[ghughesarch]

@Isthisthelongestname While it may have been propaganda (and there's, so far, no archaeological support for burnt human sacrifice), it's hardly likely to have marked the Celts out as "savages" to a Roman audience, given how they themselves behaved.

[Isthisthelongestname]

@sorrowsingsoftly

Erm...they didnt burn people in it - the romans said they did - to make the celts seem like savages and emphasis how they needed to be under the control of rome etc. In fact 5 famous writers of the time mention celtic sacrifice but none talk about burning. The only one to mention it was Julius Caesar, but it is suspected this was propaganda to gain support to continue his wars against gaul and britannia which were taking many years and costing alot of money.

[Amandainthekettle]

@sorrowsingsoftly Erm... obviously they weren't going to do that for a reality show in 1978.

[sorrowsingsoftly]

Erm... The wicker man was used to ward off disease. And it was filled with people and animals before it was burned.

[updougdown]

Educated idiots but great programme at the time.