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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social

Why DOES the BBC think a TV presenter with a BA in modern history is the right person to interview about this? Oh, he went to St Paul's and Oxford? Ah, there you go then, he's bound to know more about it than some muddy oik who went to a northern red-brick 🙄

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social

Dan Snow being given more time in Radio 4 right now to talk about the early medieval burials with West African ancestry & global trade routes rather than the actual archaeological expert involved in the project. Steam is leaving both of my ears

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    Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social

    Or maybe it’s because he’s a broadcaster with a huge popular reach and appeal and the BBC is … err .. the British Broadcasting Corporation?

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    g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social

    The very impertinence of it! Mr Snow is 2nd generation BBC, sir, an Oxford rowing blue, sir, and married to His Grace the Duke of Westminster's daughter no less sir. If that isn't ample qualification to hold forth on matters historical, sir, what is?

    Hedges, set the terriers on this ruddy bounder!

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    Spademashie @spademashie.bsky.social

    Snow is, in the public's eyes, a trusted conveyor of historic information and this latest info will get far more traction with the public and be much more troglodyte resistant, than if it came from (with due respect) a random academic. Given the significance of the data I think this is a win

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    St0neHenge @stonehenge.bsky.social

    I would find your analysis more valuable and practical Dan Snow his analysis to me is nothing but meh and bluster ..does he have an interest in the story or did he read job sheet and is just going the media echo chamber thing

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