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John Farren has been the Editor of Timewatch for 3 years.

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World War One: A Timewatch podcast Featuring: audio, photos.com

By Dr Stuart Mitchell (The Open University), John Farren (Guest), Paul Reed (Guest), Dr Chris A. Williams (The Open University)

20 October 2008

Does the end make a good starting point for understanding the First World War?  Read more : World War One: A Timewatch podcast

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Stonehenge Podcast Featuring: audio, Production team

By John Farren (Guest), The Timewatch team (Guest)

22 September 2008

John Farren, editor of Timewatch, explores the riddle of the stones with historians Tim Darvill, Susie West and Stuart Mitchell, in the Stonehenge podcast  Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

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The Greatest Knight: Audio discussion Featuring: audio, Production team

By John Farren (Guest), Professor Saul David (Guest), Dr Rachel Gibbons (Guest), Dr Stuart Mitchell (The Open University)

14 January 2008

Timewatch set out to tell the true story of one of the Knights of old. For Saul David, it would mean taking his life in...  Read more : The Greatest Knight: Audio discussion

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Revisiting Omaha Featuring: audio, Production team

By John Farren (Guest), Dr Stuart Mitchell (The Open University), Dr Dan Todman (Guest), Dr Simon Trew (Guest)

20 December 2007

John Farren chairs a discussion about the difficulties of making accurate TV history, taking the Timewatch Bloody Omaha programme as a starting point.  Read more : Revisiting Omaha

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The making of TimewatchProduction team

By John Farren (Guest)

18 January 2006

John Farren, editor of Timewatch, explains why he has the best job in the world of television.  Read more : The making of Timewatch

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Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by Unknown

12 Aug 2009

I don't know that Stonehenge is any big deal if you are a working class fellow. I mean I am sure I could build a Stonehenge by myself if I had to. 
...I think modern... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast
               

Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by William McCormick

10 Aug 2009

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I don't know that Stonehenge is any big deal if you are a working class fellow. I mean I am sure I could... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by Unknown

08 Aug 2009

Making a programme on Stonehenge that offers something new? Yay! BBC is levitating My Heel Stone and surfacing My Artefacts! ... Lord Jesus Christ Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by PROFESSORTHOM

07 Aug 2009

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A REPLY TO BRIAN'S QUESTION: "How do you make a programme on Stonehenge that offers something new" Well - I... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by Brian Thirtle

07 Aug 2009

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Plasingli Apologies for the spelling and the O.S. scale. I must remember to do a speal check... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

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06 Aug 2009

plasingli has started a thread discussing Stonehenge Podcast.
Hello again Plasingli History and... Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

Stonehenge Podcast

Comment posted by PROFESSORTHOM

03 Aug 2009

A privately funded satellite survey proves woodhenge to be a collection of six uniquely different geometric eggs, whose long axes all point at the moon and not the sun as previously thought. Read more : Stonehenge Podcast

World War One: A Timewatch podcast

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03 Nov 2008

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John Farren has been the Editor of Timewatch for 3 years. Previously he worked on a wide variety of programmes within the BBC, from biography series Reputations to more populist programmes like Airport and Children's Hospital. John has also worked outside the BBC for Channel 4 and ITV. But this is his best job ever!

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