This Week in the World of Archaeology [audio 15min]

Archaeologist Win Scutt discusses French archaeologists discovering ancient human sacrifice in Sudan, Spanish archaeologists finding a 3000-year-old burial in Egypt, a replica of a Bronze Age boat crossing the English Channel, stones carved by the Picts being scanned with lasers, a skeleton found in a Staffordshire Abbey being identified as the gay lover of King Edward II, and Viking women dressing in provocative style. Scutt's "This Week in the World of Archaeology" news feature is part of BBC Radio 5 Live's popular "Up All Night" programme. Interviewed by presenter Rhod Sharp, Scutt offers 15 minutes of archaeology each Tuesday, reaching over 1 million visitors who are mad enough to stay up to 3.30am GMT to listen. Scutt has a 40-year career in field archaeology, museum curatorship, and broadcsting. He a lecturer at City College Plymouth (England), where he teaches Archaeology, Tourism, Leisure and Business Studies; and he is Chairman of Plymouth Architectural Trust. In 2006 his Radio 5 Live reports scooped a prize at the British Archaeological Awards, the most prestigious awards in British Archaeology, where the judges were impressed by the wide-ranging nature of the archaeology Scutt presents.