I contacted Guy by email 7 yrs ago, I had an old ring with an inscription on it that looked Roman. He freely replied after 2 weeks with a two page explanation. What a lovely helpful man. I treasure that email, thanks Guy.

@mamavswild

3 жыл бұрын

So...was it Roman?? My curiosity is piqued!

@rivolinho

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. I bought a Roman coin on Ebay many years ago (probably off the back of watching TT in the early 2000s) and recently found it when clearing out a room. I've since read a lot of fake ancient coins are sold on ebay and my first thought was to see if I could email Guy, because obviously he is the man for that! I might just try it!

@landrecce

2 жыл бұрын

This is AMAZING!! Love it!!!

@brenda1378

Жыл бұрын

I did something similar, which was silly being a complete novice. But Guy very kindly took the time to reply.

I always loved Guy's quiet and appropriate excitement. When Guy was excited, it was real.

I remember Greenwich when the inscribed Roman stone was discovered. Guy running around shouting 'Who found this' and 'Do you know how rare this is' so that the digger who found it received the proper credit. Top bloke.

@emilyflotilla931

2 жыл бұрын

That was epic!

Guy de la Bédoyère; what a guy, what a name, what a historian.

Love Guy's impersonations of Mick and Phil. And I also appreciate the fact he realises that he's been free to say and do what he does because he is an independent scholar, unconstrained by the dictates of a university position.

My favorite episodes included Guy, Stewart, and/or Helen. They loved to share their knowledge and they were so articulate. They still are!

Guy being very modest about his role on Time Team I thought he was a great communicator and showed wonderful enthusiasm

I could listen to this man for hours and hours! I just love Roman sites and his ability to express his excitement making you excited too! Marvelous! Love Time Team and so glad its coming back! Please Please bring Guy along, he is simply fantastic!

I have several favorite people on TT. Guy always added articulate intelligence to the episode. He is special.

Love these people. I really miss them. The new ones are okay but they will never be as good as these.! Sorry guys but maybe it's because we're so used to the other ones. I know that they have either passed away or moved on to other adventures but they will always be my favorites 💓

How good it is to see old friends you've never met.

I always enjoyed Guy’s appearances on TT because he had such a calm, natural and lucid manner about him. Indeed, not everyone is cut out for TV work and the show did occasionally feature guest experts who betrayed a certain awkwardness in front of the camera! Helen Geake was another team member who exuded a similar cheery, natural persona. Conveying facts and insight is one thing but doing so in a clear, convivial manner is so important!

Having Guy as teacher would be a awesome. For the kids nowadays a must.

Had the pleasure of being taught Classical Civilizations by Guy! What a boss.

I met guy at a lecture in Winchester he was so friendly always had time for a chat with anyone. Was such a nice addition to time team.

A very interesting and wide-ranging interview. I can well imagine that Guy would have been an inspirational teacher.

Whenever you see this guy in a time team episode, you know it'll be a good one! (Not that they're not good but you know what I mean 😁)

Guy used to write expert technical features for a classic motorcycle magazine I used to work for.. I had no idea he was a historian until he popped up on Time Team. A talented and knowledgeable chap.

@michaeleaston951

3 жыл бұрын

Neil Webster Glad you mentioned that aspect of Guy's past, Neil. I too remember Guy writing and his pieces for the classic motorcycle press and I very much enjoyed reading them. As you say, he seems an interesting and very knowledgeable gentleman and a generally good bloke.

Guy is such an awesome man! Love his sense of humour!

Guy has such a knack of sounding like the person he quotes! When he quotes Mick or Phil, his voice becomes the voice of Mick or Phil. And what a joy to have him as a teacher!

63 y/o and Guy is still passionate and in love with history and archeology.

Robin Bush was outstanding! What a gem he was.

@bosse641

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Such a fine fellow. So knowledgeable. Would have loved to be a close friend of his and had long conversations with him, picking his brain. And I loved his language, exquisite, proper English. Loved to listen to him. And he seemed to be a fun fellow as well.

@franksmith7247

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I always thought that Robin should have had his own show. He struck me as a colorful English gentleman, perhaps a detective in another life.

@bosse641

3 жыл бұрын

@@tmb1065 Yes, agreed. He was such an asset to the show with his immense historical knowledge, and also his fun personality. A true English gentleman as Frank pointed out.

@GBV1436

3 жыл бұрын

@@franksmith7247 He did a bit, as the presenter of a few episodes of Time Team Extra. See www.thetvdb.com/series/time-team-extra

@theknave4415

3 жыл бұрын

@@tmb1065 He became very ill. Died in 2010, a few years after he left the show. Whenever I see him in TT reruns, I think of the knowledge that was lost to the world with his death. The same with Mick Aston.

Really enjoyed this episode with Guy so thank you Tim and Guy. Time Team was such an important part of my week in the 90's and into the 2000's, I remember watching each episode wishing I was part of the digs and many years later I eventually applied to do a history degree at my local university as a 'mature student'. Unfortunately the admissions tutor wasn't as keen on me studying history at his school as I was :-) Never really understood why but he made the excuse that he didn't think I would be up to the minimum required level of intellect etc. I had spent the previous 21 years making my way from semi-employed hod carrier/factory worker barely able to read or write to completing a foundation degree in computer networks the year before our meeting. So I met with the law school admissions tutor as my second option a few weeks later and went on to gain my law degree with honours and a major law school competition win to boot. Now I'm in the middle of my doctorate in sociology, but I still wonder if that admissions tutor would let someone like me in even now as a history undergrad!? :-)

I could spend a lifetime chatting with Guy about the Romans

Guy is so smart! His knowledge of the Roman's is second to none! And that was one of my favorite episodes of Time Team Roman digs! That scripture was rare and funny that the guy who found it put it in the finds tray lol. Guy, I hope to see you in one of the new Time Team episodes! Cheers from Kentucky!

@karphin1

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, I believe Guy is dead. But I loved him on Time Team.

@Dal606BBN

3 жыл бұрын

@@karphin1 what!? If that's true then that just ruined my day! :( he is one of my favorite experts on Time Team

@karphin1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dal606BBN Sorry, I just googled him, and it indicates he’s still alive! My bad. Anyway, he’s still with us. A lovely man.

@Dal606BBN

3 жыл бұрын

@@karphin1 thank goodness! Wow that was an downer to an upper fast lol. I'm glad he's still with us! Cause that will be sad day for sure! Love Guy!

@Dal606BBN

3 жыл бұрын

@@karphin1 heck it'll be a sad day if any from Time Team passes! I love them all! I've learned so much from all of them! All great people!

How wonderful to hear the erudite Guy speak! Thankyou!

I always loved Guy's contributions to Time Team. Brilliant interview Tim.

Time Team, with its wonderful crew, was such a great show and brought archaeology into so many peoples' awareness. Guy was always a great addition to any of the shows. I picked up a book recently at our local recycle about the correspondence of Samuel Pepys and what a pleasant surprise to see it was edited by Guy. He is amazingly versatile.

Tim, I thoroughly enjoyed that interview with Guy. When I first saw him on TT I thought he was a bit toffee nosed, but as the years went by my opinion changed mainly because I could see how excited he would get at times. That Spitfire dig was one of my favourite digs also. Another great interview Tim, from Down Under 😎😎🐝

Guy's impersonations were amazing!

Just caught up with this , absolutely fantastic 👏 great interview.

Guy is my personal favorite contributor to Time Team!! I just ordered a copy of his books Gladius and Praetorian, and I am eager for them to arrive so I can dig in!!

@JuxZeil

Жыл бұрын

😂 I see what you did there. 👍

Thank you Time Team for another great Teatime video! Time Team has made a very difficult year much more bearable! I can hardly wait to see what you create next year for us all out here enjoying your creations! Bless you all and stay safe your fan living in Lakewood, Washington USA

As a Latin and Roman student in university back in the early 1990s, but also as a young man who really wanted to know much more about the earlier humans, I thought when watching the older Time Teams that this guy named Guy seemed so arrogant and all-knowing in regards to the Roman, and the Iron age. But, when you look closely, he is always an attentive listener to anything anyone is saying and taking it all in. Guy is a quick thinker who listens to ideas of others in the context of the situation and very quickly analyzes what is being said and what it means in the accepted context of historical understanding at the time. So, Guy is a great listener, and an excellent analyzer of information if nothing else. He is also a great questioner. He's obviously extremely intelligent and inquisitive and runs with any information he can gather. This is how he is able to discover accurate new meanings in the archaeology with a rapid fastidiousness and express his quick analysis in a terse and accurate examination of the facts.

My DNA has been reported as approximately 50% from the UK. My earliest documented forbearers arrived in America when it was still the colonies, and they in fact fought with General Washington in the American Revolution. My last ancestor arrived from Britain in 1834. I watched all of the Time Team seasons and specials; very interesting and educational, but UK and American archeology were separate in my mind until Mr. de la Bedoyere's last comment about King Edward III. As mid-century American as I am, I suppose I too am descended from the line of King Edward III. I too, am connected to the archeology I'm watching with Time Team. I hope I get to see more and I am enjoying the vlogs with a new appreciation of "our" history. Thank you,

Guy is fascinating, I could listen to him for hours! This is almost as good as a new Time Team episode.

@Tawadeb

2 жыл бұрын

He has a very interesting history channel

Guy was my favorite expert on Time Team

When I researched my family tree I found that I could get nowhere unless I understood exactly what was happening in the history of the time. Not only that but I had to understand the culture and social setup of the people in the area. This was a great eye opener. My ancestors along with the other citizens were making history. Even though kings and queens were an important part of the historical equation our ancestors were just as important. I loved Time Team because as my paternal ancestors were in England and traceable for at least 900 years the series opened up locked knowledge of how the cultures operated through various era's. It gave me a heightened sense of identity.

What a marvelous exchange between two people who have enriched our lives immeasurably! I am especially impressed by the winsome and winning humility of Guy de la Bédoyère. The more one learns, it seems, the more painfully aware he becomes that he enjoys an infinitesimally small purchase on the known. Guy, for all his formidable expertise, embodies that academic virtue to perfection.

Absolutely let's see Time Team dig Guy's property!!! Come on fellow Patreon supporters, let's write in favour of it!! 🎉 I quite enjoyed all of Guy's work on Time Team. Is it just me or does he have the face of a Roman nobleman?

...and if Guy steps out of his house one day and finds his lawn has vanished, he'll know why :D. Excellent interview and reminiscence, thank you both.

This was an absolute pleasure to watch.

when my children were small, we always liked to watch time team, thank you.

I love you guys and I loved even more that y'all came to America and did the cowboys

Bravo!! Guy is wonderful to hear expound on everything historical.

It's true, this really was "a very great pleasure".

Consummate broadcaster, thank you Guy

I have ALWAYS loved to hear Guy talk ..i eve follow his Personal channel to listen to w/e it is he has to talk about . Very interesting man .I think my favorite episode was when they dug near a school that Guy's Children started to attend and the teacher was the one that told Guy about the Roman stuff there ,, then they Dug it . Made them all seem more like the Average person and Not some suit , but a real person you Know you could meet in pub and have a great convo with Cheers .

Guy's comment on Edward III reminded me of a genealogy book I read many, MANY moons ago, in which the author described Edward III as a 'genealogical Clapham Junction'. i've always loved that analogy.

I know this is basically all about Time Team, but I have a passion for Egyptian history. I'm delighted to hear Guy talk about this, because now I have a new addition to my book reading list, dreaming of how in another life I'm probably doing the same kind of research. Excellent program - thanks, Tim! and thanks to Guy for showing his personal side :) By the by, I should mention I'm currently reading .... wait for it ... GladIus :D

I think Guy hit on an important point. Time Team wasn't just about the archeology. A huge part of its popularity was the interection between the team members, and the fact that the team members were interesting people themselves. Great to see Guy again. He was one of my favourite irregulars along with Prof. Mark Horton.

@markusarrow

3 жыл бұрын

Horton is quite busy still he is amazing......

Guy is really a wonderful story teller. Thxs Guy & Tim!

Guy always is enthusiastic and shows such an excitement for his work that you find it easy to listen to him. I feel like a wide eyes child listening to an amazing story which makes them want to play the historical characters and add your own scenes to the drama.

My fav of Guy is the scene at the end of one episode where he scolds everyone about being pompous, and posits future archeologists cursing them for technology they can’t use and aligning everything to a satellite that has since burnt up. Please feel free, anyone, to add which episode that is--I’ve got a wicked headache today, and I’m listening to this as I knit, to take my mind off the headache. I had to comment, though. I’m not a fan of much that is Roman, really, but Guy always included architecture, public water management, and things that help me articulate how behind, even Roman times, US infrastructure currently is. (They had better pothole management than most 21st century cities.)

@B-Blom

2 жыл бұрын

Yes that was hilarious 🤣

A great interview to watch. Now time team, we need to see what secrets Guy’s house is holding.

Like so many I have read in comments of TT I came across TT during Covid. Unlike many I didn't know it existed before that because I live in Canada. Going through all of them over the last 2 years Guy became my favourite expert. I love his passion, his knowledge and his willingness to politely contradict the TT regulars when he saw them wrong. His personality always came out during the shows.

Love it when his name or face suddenly pops-up on an episode. Just feels like someone you want to know.

Great to see Guy again, a fascinating interview.

This just made my week! I love every thing about Time Team. The idea of another episode or two is delightful. Thank you for all of this

Oh my!! He used to be a teacher....... How lucky would you have had to have been to be one of his students!!! A great man, and fantastic speaker!

Guy, please tell us about your learning journey......that's just as fascinating as the things you find out!

My best memory of Guy is when he's describing a group of "self satisfied archeologists" talking about a group of finds that might have been all donated to the site where they were found. "When the old gent's popped his clogs and nobody knows where any of this stuff has come from." Good stuff indeed.

Always enjoyed the episodes where Guy showed up. Always learned something and was entertained.

I remember the time guy moved to a village and as a result his son school teacher had some stuff, and then the team did a dig in the area

Wow, a breathtaking exploration of so much that made Time Team special. I love listening to all these fascinating stories. Thanks very much Guy, and Tim.

Always a joy to hear Guy

Ha Ha that was my Fathers tyre garage (Repco Tyres) on the Godstone, Surrey Roman site! : ) Guy mentioned.... S14 E11

@Tawadeb

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!! Bet he did a good job on Phil’s tyre

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I could listen to GDLB all day long. Superb.

Always a pleasure to have Guy's insight! Will be visiting Spalding, Lincs, from Tampa this summer - would love to bump into him over a few pints...

Thank you Guy! I’ve always enjoyed your enthusiasm and you were my favorite time team member. It’s close with a few others so don’t let it go to your head. Good luck with Gladius and thank you very much.

Brilliant conversation with a very realistic attitude towards historical objects and teaching. As a historian myself, I very much recognise the effect on students of using actual historical objects in the classroom. Just stumbled across the relaunch of Time Team, and its made my day...my week...my year. Real wisdom an honesty here.

Guy was the beat. I loved his episodes. Considering he's a Roman specialist, it's absolutely fascinating that his most memorable episode had nothing to do with Romans.

I used to take coins from the time of Marc Antony all the way through to George III into my engineering design high school class to highlight both the similarities and the changes that occurred over 1800 years. I loved the reactions of some of them as I connected certain coins to historical events and talked about the state of technology and manufacturing and society through that time. The coins in their hands made a very real connection to the past for them. I'm two years older than Guy and coincidentally retired from teaching just two years ago. I do miss working with those bright young minds.

I recently bought Guy’s book, Roman Britain, and can recommend the book

@mossygreen2790

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, it's a really good read.

@lavillablanca

3 жыл бұрын

@@mossygreen2790 It is a good read.

I love this guy

Thanks Guy, Thank you for sharing all your knowledge . i have been a fan of yours for many years .

Never seen an episode before I ran across it on youtube. What a series, as usual we only have 3 days to...just great stuff. Thank you posting them. I love history.

I'm very excited and happy to be able to help support Time Team Official and hear from my heroes, including Tim Taylor and Guy.

very interesting to hear Guy talk.

Guy's closing remarks has brought "ancient" history into the present day for me! Thanks for sharing!

So great to see that Guys knowledge and enthusiasm continues to expand. I appreciate his humility. I would like to live in his brain for a few weeks. There is so much knowledge in there.

Wow! Perspective, insight, and reliability! Well done Guy!

A fascinating interview. I just love Guy's enthusiasm.

Guy has the right idea. The past should never be left in a box hidden from view. Perhaps in these days of internet those millions of objects should be photographed catalogued and put online for the world to see and learn from not just for those few academics with access but for all those interested. But above all the opportunity for those inclined to research the subject for themselves and add to our understanding with fresh eyes and differing perspectives.

Looking forward to seeing Guy on the Time Team reboot. His appearances and contributions were always valuable and Sir T’s jealousy of him, so much so that he would mispronounce Guy’s name made me shake my head in disbelief. Thank you Tim for featuring Guy!

Riveting, absolutely fascinating, entertaining and educational - thanks for this series, really super! 👍🐾🦘

Great interview, Guy is class.

Guy is a real star, very engaging.

Thank you. What a wonderful interview.

Somewhat surprised to see Guy re-engaging with Time Team but so very pleased to see that he has. Even if it’s only for this interview.

@michaelgrey7854

3 жыл бұрын

Why is that suprising? Just wondering.

@wattster71

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgrey7854 Hi Michael. You may already know this but Guy has his own KZread channel, Classical Civilization, which is well worth a peruse and subscription. He has a couple of videos explaining his recollections of Time Team. The second one is where he explains that he wouldn't want to do Time Team again. Besides, a person's interests change over time and I don't know if there is a lot of Egyptian archaeology around Ancaster! :-D

What an incredibly fascinating man!

I think this is my favourite catch up yet. Always loved listening to Guy, and his thoughts on holding a piece of history really resonated with me - as a child I always believed that by holding something old I could travel back in time and be there - always a dream for me to be able to hold an actual roman or saxon coin. Love the history link from Edward III descendents as well. All the best with the Egyptian work Guy. Thank you for another great interview Tim.

Love Guy, even learn things when he is being interviewed and hopefully will see him on a new episode of TT in the near future. I've only just discovered the new episodes and it has made my day that your back!!!!!

That was a brilliant discussion

i just ordered his book! Cant wait to read it!

Wow! Fascinating.

Fascinating episode.

Thank you 🤗

An excellent interview

Very enjoyable ! Thank you 🙏🏻