Time Team

It's part one of our look back at some of the best bits from the Time Team podcast in 2025. Helen Geake and Martyn Williams remember time spent at Sutton Hoo, investigating the landscape with Stewart Ainsworth, exploring the ancient city of Pompeii with Dr Sophie Hay, test pitting in Norton Disney and using a floatation tank with Naomi Sewpaul. What were your favourite bits from the podcast this year? Time Team members can tell us using our podcast chat on Patreon. Head to patreon.com/timeteamofficial to join in the conversation.

Merry Christmas from the Time Team podcast. The rematch is here! Time Team archaeologists Helen Geake and Derek Pitman go head to head in this year's Time Team Christmas quiz. With questions from archaeologists, crew and our Time Team members, will Helen take the title again or will Derek manage to secure his first victory? How did you get on? Play along at home to test your archaeological and Time Team knowledge.

Most of this episode was recorded before we learned about the death of Kerry Ely, Time Team's 'Mr Logistics'. Helen's answering questions from Time Team members. We'll discuss when a buried body becomes archaeology, if it's possible to go on an archaeology digging holiday, the archaeologists that run in the family and whether it's possible for new technology to unroll ancient scrolls. There's also Helen's Find, which this week is moustache-themed! You can see it at the following link: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1238768 If you'd like to get involved with future podcast episodes then become a Time Team member and join our community chat. Head to patreon.com/timeteamofficial. Next week it's the Time Team Christmas Quiz 2025. Listen as Helen Geake and Derek Pitman battle it out with questions set by the Time Team family.

In this special edition of the Time Team podcast, archaeologist Helen Geake speaks to the man who's been at the heart of Time Team since the very beginning, Sir Tony Robinson! Tony reveals how he came to present the show, discusses his love of archaeology and talks about his new book, The House of Wolf. You can buy Tony's book in the Time Team shop. Go to https://shop.timeteamdigital.com To get more from Time Team and support the work we do, consider becoming a Time Team member. Not only will you help fund the archaeology we do you'll be part of a growing community of archaeology fans. You'll get access to behind the scenes videos, extended interviews, masterclasses and the chance to join us on a future dig. Head to patreon.com/timeteamofficial for more information. If you go there in December 2025 you'll find a 7 day free trial.

In February 2024 a wooden shipwreck was revealed on a beach in Orkney. People on the island of Sanday originally believed it might’ve been dislodged from the seabed in violent storms. What was it and how did it get there? Archaeologists have been piecing together the mystery of the Sanday Wreck. In this special edition of the Time Team podcast, Helen Geake and Martyn Williams speak to Ben Saunders, senior marine archaeologist at Wessex Archaeology, who's made some remarkable discoveries about the ship's true identity and its amazing story. There's loads more about the Sanday Wreck here: https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/sanday-wreck