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Sunday Feature: Jacquetta Hawkes and the Personal Past

Series 1, episode 0

Christine Finn explores clues in the personal and public life of previously celebrated archaeologist and writer Jacquetta Hawkes. Her films and her regular TV and radio appearances ensured she was a public figure, her best-selling 1951 book: A Land, made archaeology accessible in a novel way, and she was married to JB Priestley. Christine talks to Jacquetta Hawkes's son, Nicolas, JB Priestley's son, Tom, Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology at Oxford Barry Cunliffe, Roman archaeologist Dr Martin Henig, Professor of Classical Archaeology at Stanford Michael Shanks, and visits the Hawkes archive at Bradford University in the company of archivist Alison Cullingford