What a wonderful, magnificent human being is Phil Harding. As an archaeologist, his abilities were demonstrated time and time again on the first Time Team programme (I do miss him on this second version), but he also shines as a humanitarian, one who doesn't use a fancy offical vocabulary in an effort to impress the uniniated, but tells history in terms we all can understand because that's his goal; to bring an understanding of history to everyone. And on a personal level, he's a warm, gentle, people loving man with a very strong yet fair sense of right and wrong. National treasure?... you bet! I'm just very, very sorry there aren't more people like him. Thank you, Phil, for showing us what we can be.
Having watched every Time Team at least once, Phil feels like a valued friend to me. Thank you very much for another chance to hear him speak about his passion.
As an American , my knowledge of British history was generalized and academic. Time team made it all come alive through the wonderful things they found and the lessons on history, topography and geology tying it all to the people who were there. With love and obvious passion. Thanks for the free college level classes.
I admire and respect Phil Harding so much! Being in America I never got to watch Time Team when it was on regular TV, but discovered it on RUclips. I've watched every episode on RUclips. The advances that one show brought to the field is remarkable. It's a calling of the heart, being an archaeologist.
Phil Harding is an absolute Legend. I think one of the most intimate ways in which Phil can tell a story linking prehistoric archaelogy to his finds is how his DNA is linked to the first people who colonised what is now England. The people who made the flint arrowheads and knapped those cores. They were His People. You cannot get any closer than that!
A great conversation and glad to see Mr Harding again. As a Patreon for the NEW TIME TEAM - I just want to say we all miss you Phil!! But respect the fact that you put your shovel down, your old hat on the hook & take the time to enjoy yourself, but if you ever want to drop by a new dig site just to say hi... ...I think well over 10000 Patreons would be over the moon!
Fantastic Video that sums up all I love about Time Team. Phil made Time Team a favorite element of my life. I am about 6 months older than Phil and wish I had worked for Time Team from its first show I saw in the 90s (I was a US citizen often working in the UK on computer software who loved history/archeology and visited many Time Team sites in my spare time). Time Team made me aware of (and love) the evolution of human society, science and the basic elements they grew from. Phil deserves LOUD thanks from anyone who saw Time Team in the last 30 years (or the next 70 years!).
Apart from everything else, I just love the way that Phil sticks with his West Country accent and doesn't ever sound in the slightest like a TV person.
I started watching Time Team (in Canada) as I was channel surfing. I heard Phil's voice and he had the same voice as my cousins! We are Wiltshire/Somerset people. Harding is a name in my family tree and I sure hope it means we are related! Phil is very intelligent and so respected. TT has impacted not just the world of archeology, but the whole world! Phil's writings are just the icing on the cake of the legacy he is leaving. Phil may think he was at the right place at the right time but I think a higher power put Phil there because the higher power knew the world needed Phil Harding!!
Absolutely love and respect this man! Forget celebrities, hollywood actors, millionaires, give me Phil Harding, any day! Thank you for all you do, Mr. Harding! Thank you for sharing your wisdom, your sense of humor, and your unique perspective and personality. AWESOME interview!
I first came across Time Team as a thirty something year old Australian, when I was taught history growing up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, we were told about the previous two hundred years of White Australian history. Until Time Team i had never heard about the Roman Invasion of Britain! Watching Phil and the other people on the show and learning from them, has been a huge learning experience for me, so now I can’t get enough of Archeological shows. Thanks Phil and Time Team. 👍🏼👍🏼
Oh my. This was great.---I retired as a nurse after 52 1/2 years, falling in love with the notion of being a nurse after looking at a black-n-white picture book of student nurses likely taken in the 1940s. I was 12 at the time. From that time, it's all I wanted to be. After many highs and lows, and changes in job description, I never had any regrets.---I love that Phil still has a place in my heart.
I always thought phil should have been honored by the queen for his amazing deligence, his knowledge, his ability to communicate with everyone, to explain what we're looking at how to understand it. Phil is amazing i miss him on the currant shows. Thank you for this pod cast...love it
I have long and deeply admired Phil Harding. He is a crack archaeologist, and even more importantly he is a dear, warm, caring man. Thank you, Mr. Harding. You have taught and do teach us so much that is good.
Phil became my favorite archaeologists from the first Time team episode I ever watched a long time ago. There isn't that many people who are really good at something without it going to their head but Phil is exactly the type of person I wouldn't mind having a pint with. Competent but also very entertaining,. I was missing him a lot when I watched that recent Sutton Hoo dig, it was heart warming to see John and Stewart working together again but I really missed having Phil telling Tony to stay out of his trench. Thanks for all your years of service to archaeology, Phil, both on and off camera.
I've watched everything Time have ever created probaly 3 times. Seeing how they have all aged over the past 20 years or so is probably my greatest reminder of the fact that we all age and finally will die, much more so than my own family members whom I have seen age very slowly day to day. Tis is why this video moves me quite a lot more than it should, given I have never met Phil in person. Strange things happento us in the media age.
Also, since the age of 10 or so I have really only ever wanted to be an archeologist myself, but the other goal in my life has always been to have a family and be able to provide for them. So, after initially inscribing for archeology at Heidelberg University, Germany, I then chickened out, after seeing all the posts on the faculty's black board on how to get retrained to get a real job and I ended up with a degree in economics and have since worked first in corporate finance, then corporate IT, making 100k/year and providing for my wife (now ex-wife since last year) and 3 children. Tough call for me whether those decisions have all been the best ones possible, but anyway, I still follow time team and the likes of professor Alice Roberts with passion and, yes, a lot of envy.
Phil, I wish you had been in the U S A in your earlier days. My sister is 81 years old, with a Doctorate of Paeleontology from the University of Champaigne-Urbana in Illinois. She worked her way through college. Unfortunately, she got little work in her chosen profession, as those jobs went to men. It did get her teaching work in Geology. She went back to school and got degrees in Geology and Hydrology, working in oil fields and as a State Hydrogeologist. She retired at age 72 but is still working. She now works more hours a week volunteering, than she did "working", running a food pantry for people in need.
I adored Phil on Time Team. I have watched it for years and still watch the re-runs. I’m also watching the new Time Team as a member on Patreon. One of the funniest things Phil ever said on TT, when asked by Tony Robinson if he had found anything in his trench, he replied “not a sausage Tony.” I nearly died laughing and I’m laughing as I write. What a great character he is. What would we do without archaeologists? I wish you well Phil.
Thank you for this wonderful interview! The old Time Team is still influencing children today :) My daughter has been hooked on history since she watched the old episodes on youtube.
Time team was from the off an amazing programme. It brought archaeology into everyday homes and made it so watchable. One of the biggest reasons for that was Phil Harding. A wealth of knowledge with a way of explaining it that sunk in. There is no doubt Phil that your career has been one of the biggest influences to archaeology that the UK has ever seen. This stems from the physical discoveries you have made to the countless next generation archaeologists steered into the profession by watching you on Time team. It is great to hear you have enjoyed your career, effectively getting paid for what you love. I too had that drive as a small boy. From the word go I only wanted to be one thing. A Vet. Up until I was 17 all was on course. Then the wheels came off. I crashed and burned. Took any job to earn a crust and spent the next 43 years doing what I hate and still am. A life wasted, with nothing to show for it. That can't be said of Phil. Great career and plenty of achievements.
No life is wasted. I feel pain and bitterness in your comment which I can also resonate with! You (and I!,and everyone) can always change and find purpose. I hope that you find a way to reconnect with your inner vet...
US fan here. . .. have watched the entire Time Team series more than 15 times over the last 10 years. .. . yes, all the way through. LOVE & RESPECT to Phil. Wish I could have the privilege of meeting/talking to him. Hoping to be in Wiltshire this September. I want to visit TT sites & Barrow Clumps! Sure wish Phil were participating in the modern TT, but glad he's writing & adding to the historic discussion. KUDOS Phil, I'm your biggest fan! (and I normally don't gush about personalities)
I have recently found Time Team on RUclips within the last year. Being in America, I had no idea about the show until my son clicking on a show by accident. Now I've seen every episode at least 2x, and continue to watch it almost every day as I wind down for bed most of the time. Phil is one of the best on the show in many ways along with others like Guy, Helen, Sir Tony, Stewart (i love Stewart lol), Robin, Matt Alice, and most of all Mick...Mick is/was my favorite to listen to. One I can't seem to recall, a Roman finds specialist...Mark Corney I think...I know I butchered the last name but he was also a good one. Sooo many others as well but Phil tops them all imo.
I'm so happy to come across this. I adore Time Team and Phil Harding. I've seen every episode about ten times! As an American, I am now so in love with Britain and its history. Would love to see you interview other Time Team members. I also love Matt Williams.
As an American, with genealogy from UK/ Ireland, I discovered Time Team about five months ago. I’ve lost count how many episodes I’ve consumed thus far. When I was young I wanted to be an Egyptologist; since then I have cultivated a passion for the anthropology of art, scent and medicine. What a wonderful interview with this legend. Thank you!!
This is 30 minutes with an amazing man. I've watched the Time Signs three or four times and then found Time Team on RUclips in about 2015. I think I've watched the full series at least 8-10 times and have a full set downloaded as well. I am so admiring of Phil Harding. He has taught me so much over the years, and I simply adore his personal energy. Well done interview. Thank you so much.
I hope Phil Harding knows how much influence he has had on people like me who only had a passing interest in archeology. Time Team showed up in my feed and I have been hooked ever since. Phil and his enthusiasm and knowledge are a big part of that. I never thought I be interested in flints! So, Thanks Phill. ❤
Absolutely fascinating, but I'd expect nothing else from the great Phil Harding! It was fantastic seeing him again now that Time Team Original Series is over.
I still watch TT here in the U.S. My absolute favorite program. I'm lucky that it's been available on youtube from a guy named Reijer Zaaijer & his channel, with all 20 seasons & the extra shows. Fun !
Phil and Tony were in all of the Original series. He even turned up with a broken leg! He has been involved in a long running project at Waterloo and working with Forces vets with PTSD and disabilities. I assumed that was why he had not been involved in the new TT. But it may go deeper. People, especially the producers, conveniently forget that Mick Aston walked before the series got pulled, because he didn't like the way it was being dumbed down. No it is all "Saint Mick of Time Team" in the New show. I did hear rumours that Phil wasn't happy either. Also that he was asked when they resurrected it, but turned them down.
Congratulations on over 50 years of passion and skill!! Being able too see what lies within a chunk of flint and the ability to realize it are master skills very few can conceive or realize. Bravo!!
Team Team introduced me to Phil and I have loved him ever since. I have rewatched the classic show so many times I can almost repeat them word by word. I miss him. I will always adore him. Thank you Phil for all you have given the Time Team and me.
May we all “just do my job” the way Phil does! I’d listen to Phil talk about archeology for hours. His writing advice is spot on, too. I’ve got to make some notes, to share with my students.
I came late to watching Time Team but I have watched all the episodes at least one on RUclips. I so enjoyed hearing Phil speak today. If youare able to please convey to hime that I am a Patreon supporter of Time team for this year's dig at Sutton Hoo. Patreon members were given a choice of having their name or a dedication put on this flag. I choose to make a dedication to Mr. Harding . It reads, " For Phil Harding, field archeologist supreme." I have missed seeing him.
Discovered Phil on Time Team. He made that show so much more with his enthusiasm about what he found and created. I would love to have a flint tool made by him!
Remember that episode when someone took all the tools besides Phil's shovel? He had it under his bed with the comment "My shovel go where I go"... Yeah, they had ditched the tools in a bush so the others got their stuff back shortly but it was so Phil. :)
I wish they had talked more about his Time Team colleagues, and his memories of specific episodes. The show opened so many people's eyes about archeology, and made it real.
A national treasure, a huge influence in making archaeologically open to the public eye and making it interesting … an adventure in knowledge. Phil, I hoist a beer to you!😎👍
I saw a picture of Phil with his wife. His hair was cut short and he looked quite respectable.LOL.Time Team without Phil and his hat and short shorts, would not have been the same.
Thanks for this Phil has been a hero of mine since seeing his first tv appearance. I have watched all of time team several times. An excellent interview.
I love this video. I discovered Time Team after Covid, but have been a fan. The antiquity is a real draw, thinking about the people who lived thousands of years ago, but also, there's the interactions between Time Team members that just brings the human element in a different age upfront. Phil is definitely charismatic. I'm almost as old as he is, so I am not starting a career. I just love pondering what the relations were between the ancient people, and the natural environment in which they lived, and their connections to others who sometimes lived far away. Thank you for both your efforts in producing this interview.
Brilliant blog, Phil and company brought archaeology into the 21st.Century; I was one of those lucky ones who worked in architecture, and was my passion. Thanks for all those hours of Time Team.
My experience as a Field Archaeologist was similar to Phil's as when I worked freelance in the 90's - 2000's there were few 'secure' jobs and most of us worked temporary contracts on a not very impressive salary. For years we'd live in tents on-site at summer digs and in cheap B & Bs if we were lucky. Great fun, but after back problems and not finding a secure job in the field I reluctantly gave it up. If only I'd trained more recently I could've had a proper career path, but now there are far more archaeology graduates being produced yearly for still relatively few jobs.
I was introduced to Time Team about 3 years ago. I have watched every episode that I have found. Sometimes twice. Now I am watching episodes that the young ones are now middle aged or more and the excitement is still there. Phil, you have afforded me more laughs than anyone and the knowledge you have is so exciting. We don't have the archeology in Middle Tennessee that you have but I can relate that it is so exciting to find an arrowhead or shard. Keep it going Phil.
I love Mr. Harding's enthusiasm and fun-loving personality. It's a wonderful thing to have an intuitive understanding of what career path you are meant to follow. ❤
Bless you Phil. Your passion for archeology influenced me to such an extent that whilst I'm roguing wheat fields in the summer I'm also roguing pottery sherds. I always go home heavier. I also enjoy very much your Waterloo investigations, hard not to with such passionate and enthusiastic input. Simply thank you Phil Harding, I salute you.
Mark,I thank you so much for bringing Phil to us for a chat,very educational and motivational for all of us listening to it.I love Phil for what he does and done in the past .Cheers Laz
congradulations phil your one great guy and i loved the fun you and tony had it pays to enjoy your work , makes it feel like you have acomplished something . all the best terry👍
Time Team on RUclips was my incredibly addictive gateway drug to UK history, and now here I am knee-deep in Marc Morris' books on the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest and anticipating the arrival of Guy de la Bedoyere's book on Roman Britain. I didn't grow up with Time Team in the US, nor was I exposed to detailed British history in school; I mean, we were taught about the Battle of Hastings and William the Conqueror but nothing in great details. It's a fascinating experience to come to it as a clean slate, with no preconceptions. I'd kill for a book about stone age Britain written by Phil.
Thank goodness that I have found this video. I have always hopped that I would find one that had insights of Phil Harding's career. I consider Phil Harding to be the greatest archaeologist on this planet. Pardon the pun, but, he is "down to earth"... he does not speculate or exaggerate... he would always investigate and extrapolate. He never let anyone intimidate him just because they were of "higher position"...Site Director... Professor... etc. One of my favourite moments was when Phil said to Francis Prior..." eh?... that's a hell of a stride you've got there!... and Prior conceded instantly that Phil was right... because... Phil WAS right! Always has been... always will be. Thank you!
Living in the USA, I didn't find Time Team until is was too late. so I watched every episode and am watching them all over again...Time Team Classics only. I just bought Phil's book from Amazon....thanks for letting us know! Can wait to read it!!!!
* sigh * ... Phil is showing his age. I am saying that from the same age as Phil ... pretty much. He was born 25 Jan 1950 ... and I on 02 Feb 1950 .. so he beat me here by a week. What fun to watch Phil and the others on the Time Team show. Speaking of the show .. just looked it up and it premiered in 1994 The first thing that always comes to mind thinking about the early years of the show is that Tony had hair. What a fun romp with Phil and I was impressed enough with Mark that I sub-scribed.
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What a wonderful, magnificent human being is Phil Harding. As an archaeologist, his abilities were demonstrated time and time again on the first Time Team programme (I do miss him on this second version), but he also shines as a humanitarian, one who doesn't use a fancy offical vocabulary in an effort to impress the uniniated, but tells history in terms we all can understand because that's his goal; to bring an understanding of history to everyone. And on a personal level, he's a warm, gentle, people loving man with a very strong yet fair sense of right and wrong. National treasure?... you bet! I'm just very, very sorry there aren't more people like him. Thank you, Phil, for showing us what we can be.
Very well said!
Been watching him from across the pond for years, and just love him to bits.
An excellent evaluation. Avuncular Phil with all that weird knowledge, pint magnet for me, I just want to buy him beer and listen to what follows.
Having watched every Time Team at least once, Phil feels like a valued friend to me. Thank you very much for another chance to hear him speak about his passion.
As an American , my knowledge of British history was generalized and academic. Time team made it all come alive through the wonderful things they found and the lessons on history, topography and geology tying it all to the people who were there. With love and obvious passion. Thanks for the free college level classes.
I admire and respect Phil Harding so much! Being in America I never got to watch Time Team when it was on regular TV, but discovered it on RUclips. I've watched every episode on RUclips. The advances that one show brought to the field is remarkable. It's a calling of the heart, being an archaeologist.
Me too! I rewatch them everyday
Me three.
Same here!
Me too!!
I agree with you I too being an American never got to watch it originally but discovered it on RUclips
So wonderful to see Phil in any form now but so miss him on the new Time Team.
Phil Harding is an absolute legend
Nobody can even hold a candle against Phil, he's the best.
Phil Harding is an absolute Legend.
I think one of the most intimate ways in which Phil can tell a story linking prehistoric archaelogy to his finds is how his DNA is linked to the first people who colonised what is now England. The people who made the flint arrowheads and knapped those cores. They were His People.
You cannot get any closer than that!
I absolutely agree! Loved the episode where he found out. You really see how genuinely happy we was!
A great conversation and glad to see Mr Harding again.
As a Patreon for the NEW TIME TEAM - I just want to say we all miss you Phil!!
But respect the fact that you put your shovel down, your old hat on the hook & take the time to enjoy yourself, but if you ever want to drop by a new dig site just to say hi...
...I think well over 10000 Patreons would be over the moon!
YES!!!!
Fantastic Video that sums up all I love about Time Team. Phil made Time Team a favorite element of my life. I am about 6 months older than Phil and wish I had worked for Time Team from its first show I saw in the 90s (I was a US citizen often working in the UK on computer software who loved history/archeology and visited many Time Team sites in my spare time). Time Team made me aware of (and love) the evolution of human society, science and the basic elements they grew from. Phil deserves LOUD thanks from anyone who saw Time Team in the last 30 years (or the next 70 years!).
Mick Aston needed a shout out.
Phil is a multi national treasure!!
Phil made the show.....we always looked forward to seeing Phil and his opinions on finds.
C'mon Phil join the rest of the team on the new RUclips Time Team channel! You're the only one missing, and we all want you back!
Apart from everything else, I just love the way that Phil sticks with his West Country accent and doesn't ever sound in the slightest like a TV person.
I started watching Time Team (in Canada) as I was channel surfing. I heard Phil's voice and he had the same voice as my cousins! We are Wiltshire/Somerset people. Harding is a name in my family tree and I sure hope it means we are related!
Phil is very intelligent and so respected. TT has impacted not just the world of archeology, but the whole world! Phil's writings are just the icing on the cake of the legacy he is leaving. Phil may think he was at the right place at the right time but I think a higher power put Phil there because the higher power knew the world needed Phil Harding!!
Absolutely love and respect this man! Forget celebrities, hollywood actors, millionaires, give me Phil Harding, any day! Thank you for all you do, Mr. Harding! Thank you for sharing your wisdom, your sense of humor, and your unique perspective and personality. AWESOME interview!
I first came across Time Team as a thirty something year old Australian, when I was taught history growing up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, we were told about the previous two hundred years of White Australian history. Until Time Team i had never heard about the Roman Invasion of Britain! Watching Phil and the other people on the show and learning from them, has been a huge learning experience for me, so now I can’t get enough of Archeological shows. Thanks Phil and Time Team. 👍🏼👍🏼
Oh my. This was great.---I retired as a nurse after 52 1/2 years, falling in love with the notion of being a nurse after looking at a black-n-white picture book of student nurses likely taken in the 1940s. I was 12 at the time. From that time, it's all I wanted to be. After many highs and lows, and changes in job description, I never had any regrets.---I love that Phil still has a place in my heart.
I always thought phil should have been honored by the queen for his amazing deligence, his knowledge, his ability to communicate with everyone, to explain what we're looking at how to understand it. Phil is amazing i miss him on the currant shows.
Thank you for this pod cast...love it
I have long and deeply admired Phil Harding. He is a crack archaeologist, and even more importantly he is a dear, warm, caring man. Thank you, Mr. Harding. You have taught and do teach us so much that is good.
Phil, on those rainy hills in the Devon / Dorset moors, digging in piles of stones: "Bliss" , from an earlier Time Team episode.
Phil became my favorite archaeologists from the first Time team episode I ever watched a long time ago.
There isn't that many people who are really good at something without it going to their head but Phil is exactly the type of person I wouldn't mind having a pint with.
Competent but also very entertaining,.
I was missing him a lot when I watched that recent Sutton Hoo dig, it was heart warming to see John and Stewart working together again but I really missed having Phil telling Tony to stay out of his trench.
Thanks for all your years of service to archaeology, Phil, both on and off camera.
I've watched everything Time have ever created probaly 3 times. Seeing how they have all aged over the past 20 years or so is probably my greatest reminder of the fact that we all age and finally will die, much more so than my own family members whom I have seen age very slowly day to day. Tis is why this video moves me quite a lot more than it should, given I have never met Phil in person. Strange things happento us in the media age.
Also, since the age of 10 or so I have really only ever wanted to be an archeologist myself, but the other goal in my life has always been to have a family and be able to provide for them. So, after initially inscribing for archeology at Heidelberg University, Germany, I then chickened out, after seeing all the posts on the faculty's black board on how to get retrained to get a real job and I ended up with a degree in economics and have since worked first in corporate finance, then corporate IT, making 100k/year and providing for my wife (now ex-wife since last year) and 3 children. Tough call for me whether those decisions have all been the best ones possible, but anyway, I still follow time team and the likes of professor Alice Roberts with passion and, yes, a lot of envy.
Phils a Hero, cheers Phil for ya hard work & dedication, flint for the win
Phil, I wish you had been in the U S A in your earlier days. My sister is 81 years old, with a Doctorate of Paeleontology from the University of Champaigne-Urbana in Illinois. She worked her way through college. Unfortunately, she got little work in her chosen profession, as those jobs went to men. It did get her teaching work in Geology. She went back to school and got degrees in Geology and Hydrology, working in oil fields and as a State Hydrogeologist. She retired at age 72 but is still working. She now works more hours a week volunteering, than she did "working", running a food pantry for people in need.
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I adored Phil on Time Team. I have watched it for years and still watch the re-runs. I’m also watching the new Time Team as a member on Patreon. One of the funniest things Phil ever said on TT, when asked by Tony Robinson if he had found anything in his trench, he replied “not a sausage Tony.” I nearly died laughing and I’m laughing as I write. What a great character he is. What would we do without archaeologists? I wish you well Phil.
Thank you for this wonderful interview! The old Time Team is still influencing children today :) My daughter has been hooked on history since she watched the old episodes on youtube.
Time team was from the off an amazing programme. It brought archaeology into everyday homes and made it so watchable. One of the biggest reasons for that was Phil Harding. A wealth of knowledge with a way of explaining it that sunk in. There is no doubt Phil that your career has been one of the biggest influences to archaeology that the UK has ever seen. This stems from the physical discoveries you have made to the countless next generation archaeologists steered into the profession by watching you on Time team. It is great to hear you have enjoyed your career, effectively getting paid for what you love.
I too had that drive as a small boy. From the word go I only wanted to be one thing. A Vet. Up until I was 17 all was on course. Then the wheels came off. I crashed and burned. Took any job to earn a crust and spent the next 43 years doing what I hate and still am. A life wasted, with nothing to show for it. That can't be said of Phil. Great career and plenty of achievements.
No life is wasted. I feel pain and bitterness in your comment which I can also resonate with!
You (and I!,and everyone) can always change and find purpose.
I hope that you find a way to reconnect with your inner vet...
I agree ,never too late to do what you love just find that little hidden door which leads to it!
So few can follow their passion. Phil was fortunate to live his dream.
US fan here. . .. have watched the entire Time Team series more than 15 times over the last 10 years. .. . yes, all the way through. LOVE & RESPECT to Phil. Wish I could have the privilege of meeting/talking to him. Hoping to be in Wiltshire this September. I want to visit TT sites & Barrow Clumps! Sure wish Phil were participating in the modern TT, but glad he's writing & adding to the historic discussion. KUDOS Phil, I'm your biggest fan! (and I normally don't gush about personalities)
I have recently found Time Team on RUclips within the last year. Being in America, I had no idea about the show until my son clicking on a show by accident. Now I've seen every episode at least 2x, and continue to watch it almost every day as I wind down for bed most of the time. Phil is one of the best on the show in many ways along with others like Guy, Helen, Sir Tony, Stewart (i love Stewart lol), Robin, Matt Alice, and most of all Mick...Mick is/was my favorite to listen to. One I can't seem to recall, a Roman finds specialist...Mark Corney I think...I know I butchered the last name but he was also a good one. Sooo many others as well but Phil tops them all imo.
Phil Harding is a jewel, and a true legend! ❤
I'm so happy to come across this. I adore Time Team and Phil Harding. I've seen every episode about ten times! As an American, I am now so in love with Britain and its history. Would love to see you interview other Time Team members. I also love Matt Williams.
As an American, with genealogy from UK/ Ireland, I discovered Time Team about five months ago. I’ve lost count how many episodes I’ve consumed thus far. When I was young I wanted to be an Egyptologist; since then I have cultivated a passion for the anthropology of art, scent and medicine. What a wonderful interview with this legend.
Thank you!!
What does your genealogy have to do with it?
I loved watching Phil on Time Team and miss that he is not on the reboot, but maybe he will do a guest appearance or two. Love you Phil xx
This is 30 minutes with an amazing man. I've watched the Time Signs three or four times and then found Time Team on RUclips in about 2015. I think I've watched the full series at least 8-10 times and have a full set downloaded as well. I am so admiring of Phil Harding. He has taught me so much over the years, and I simply adore his personal energy. Well done interview. Thank you so much.
Just charming. So glad to hear how he is doing.
I became a Phil fan when he said on one show that Peter Green was his favorite guitarist.
Love Phil Harding!
Thank you to Phil Harding for shouting out the use of evidence and value of libraries.
Phil I'd sure like to see you back on the new Time Team!
I’d love to see him do a cameo, at least.
YES!!
I hope Phil Harding knows how much influence he has had on people like me who only had a passing interest in archeology. Time Team showed up in my feed and I have been hooked ever since. Phil and his enthusiasm and knowledge are a big part of that. I never thought I be interested in flints! So, Thanks Phill. ❤
Absolutely fascinating, but I'd expect nothing else from the great Phil Harding! It was fantastic seeing him again now that Time Team Original Series is over.
I still watch TT here in the U.S. My absolute favorite program. I'm lucky that it's been available on youtube from a guy named Reijer Zaaijer & his channel, with all 20 seasons & the extra shows. Fun !
I’m just delighted Phil is still with us, he was the star of TimeTeam but he seemed to disappear, I thought the worst. Quite made my day.
Phil and Tony were in all of the Original series. He even turned up with a broken leg! He has been involved in a long running project at Waterloo and working with Forces vets with PTSD and disabilities. I assumed that was why he had not been involved in the new TT. But it may go deeper. People, especially the producers, conveniently forget that Mick Aston walked before the series got pulled, because he didn't like the way it was being dumbed down. No it is all "Saint Mick of Time Team" in the New show. I did hear rumours that Phil wasn't happy either. Also that he was asked when they resurrected it, but turned them down.
@@hogwashmcturnip8930I think it was Mick with the broken leg. Phil had slip disc once and a sprained wrist another time
@@annazaman9657 Well, I watched a Q & A with Phil and he said he broke his leg? He said he used to turn up on site in an ambulance.
I have always enjoyed Phil he has a dynamic personality and really enjoys what he does. I just wished he was involved with the new Time Team.
Congratulations on over 50 years of passion and skill!! Being able too see what lies within a chunk of flint and the ability to realize it are master skills very few can conceive or realize. Bravo!!
Team Team introduced me to Phil and I have loved him ever since. I have rewatched the classic show so many times I can almost repeat them word by word. I miss him. I will always adore him. Thank you Phil for all you have given the Time Team and me.
May we all “just do my job” the way Phil does! I’d listen to Phil talk about archeology for hours. His writing advice is spot on, too. I’ve got to make some notes, to share with my students.
I came late to watching Time Team but I have watched all the episodes at least one on RUclips. I so enjoyed hearing Phil speak today. If youare able to please convey to hime that I am a Patreon supporter of Time
team for this year's dig at
Sutton Hoo. Patreon members were given a choice of having their name or a dedication put on this flag. I choose to make a dedication to Mr. Harding . It reads, " For Phil Harding, field archeologist supreme." I have missed seeing him.
I came late to Time Team and quickly became a Phil Fan, and I'm so pleased to finally hear him talk about his career. Thank you for this!
Discovered Phil on Time Team. He made that show so much more with his enthusiasm about what he found and created.
I would love to have a flint tool made by him!
I will never get tired of listening to Phil Harding!
St.Phil=Patron Saint of Shovel Bums!🇺🇲
Remember that episode when someone took all the tools besides Phil's shovel? He had it under his bed with the comment "My shovel go where I go"... Yeah, they had ditched the tools in a bush so the others got their stuff back shortly but it was so Phil. :)
@@loke6664I remember that one. I snortlaughed so hard 😂
@@katjagirnus9573 Yeah, I can't think of another sentence that is more typical Phil. :)
@@loke6664 same 🤣
Thanks Phill for you work on time team and your downtown earth way of speaking 💐🏴
I wish they had talked more about his Time Team colleagues, and his memories of specific episodes.
The show opened so many people's eyes about archeology, and made it real.
A national treasure, a huge influence in making archaeologically open to the public eye and making it interesting … an adventure in knowledge.
Phil, I hoist a beer to you!😎👍
Phil is a classic, one of a kind, and so very special! Please schedule periodic updates of his journey!
Imagine when Phil is gone.. I dont want to see a world without this amazing man
Lovecabd respect Phil. From New Zealand
I saw a picture of Phil with his wife. His hair was cut short and he looked quite respectable.LOL.Time Team without Phil and his hat and short shorts, would not have been the same.
You must have seen a picture of someone else. Phil did have a short term relationship but never married. And he has very famously never cut his hair!
Thanks for this Phil has been a hero of mine since seeing his first tv appearance. I have watched all of time team several times. An excellent interview.
I love this video. I discovered Time Team after Covid, but have been a fan. The antiquity is a real draw, thinking about the people who lived thousands of years ago, but also, there's the interactions between Time Team members that just brings the human element in a different age upfront. Phil is definitely charismatic. I'm almost as old as he is, so I am not starting a career. I just love pondering what the relations were between the ancient people, and the natural environment in which they lived, and their connections to others who sometimes lived far away. Thank you for both your efforts in producing this interview.
What a wonderful person. Love this man.
A good man
Miss him on time team. My interest in archology is because of time team. I'm a sponge now can't get enough
Thanks Phil
PHil is a national treasure!
I love Phil! He tells it like it is. I have been watching Time Team for years now. I even enjoy ones watch again. Loved Mick Aston, too!,
Brilliant blog, Phil and company brought archaeology into the 21st.Century; I was one of those lucky ones who worked in architecture, and was my passion. Thanks for all those hours of Time Team.
My experience as a Field Archaeologist was similar to Phil's as when I worked freelance in the 90's - 2000's there were few 'secure' jobs and most of us worked temporary contracts on a not very impressive salary. For years we'd live in tents on-site at summer digs and in cheap B & Bs if we were lucky. Great fun, but after back problems and not finding a secure job in the field I reluctantly gave it up. If only I'd trained more recently I could've had a proper career path, but now there are far more archaeology graduates being produced yearly for still relatively few jobs.
Phil is one cool old man. Wow. This is the kind of older person I strive to be.
Love that man! And admire he is living his own dream, great role model. ❤
Legend. Seen him giving an impromptu talk about shovels to a rapt audience of middle aged blokes. Might still be on RUclips. Amazing man.
I was introduced to Time Team about 3 years ago. I have watched every episode that I have found. Sometimes twice. Now I am watching episodes that the young ones are now middle aged or more and the excitement is still there. Phil, you have afforded me more laughs than anyone and the knowledge you have is so exciting. We don't have the archeology in Middle Tennessee that you have but I can relate that it is so exciting to find an arrowhead or shard. Keep it going Phil.
Absolutely fascinating interview! Thank you Phil Harding and Mark Fawcett for this great conversation.
I love this man. ❤
I love Mr. Harding's enthusiasm and fun-loving personality. It's a wonderful thing to have an intuitive understanding of what career path you are meant to follow. ❤
Bless you Phil. Your passion for archeology influenced me to such an extent that whilst I'm roguing wheat fields in the summer I'm also roguing pottery sherds. I always go home heavier. I also enjoy very much your Waterloo investigations, hard not to with such passionate and enthusiastic input. Simply thank you Phil Harding, I salute you.
Mark,I thank you so much for bringing Phil to us for a chat,very educational and motivational for all of us listening to it.I love Phil for what he does and done in the past .Cheers Laz
He brought history to live
Good video. Much love to Phil. I admire his positive mind ser.
American lady of a certain age here. Phil was always my favorite. 🥰 FLINT!
congradulations phil your one great guy and i loved the fun you and tony had it pays to enjoy your work , makes it feel like you have acomplished something . all the best terry👍
One of the very best 👍
Wonderful interview, with a tremendously interesting man, loved him in the Time Team series, love watching the reruns!
Brilliant interview....plus an important lesson for all in choosing careers....
Phil is an inspiration. Love to hear his thoughts on his career and the field in general.
Many blessings sent !!! Thank you for everything. Carry on and enjoy !!!! Fr USA
Time Team on RUclips was my incredibly addictive gateway drug to UK history, and now here I am knee-deep in Marc Morris' books on the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest and anticipating the arrival of Guy de la Bedoyere's book on Roman Britain. I didn't grow up with Time Team in the US, nor was I exposed to detailed British history in school; I mean, we were taught about the Battle of Hastings and William the Conqueror but nothing in great details. It's a fascinating experience to come to it as a clean slate, with no preconceptions.
I'd kill for a book about stone age Britain written by Phil.
Thank goodness that I have found this video. I have always hopped that I would find one that had insights of Phil Harding's career. I consider Phil Harding to be the greatest archaeologist on this planet. Pardon the pun, but, he is "down to earth"... he does not speculate or exaggerate... he would always investigate and extrapolate. He never let anyone intimidate him just because they were of "higher position"...Site Director... Professor... etc. One of my favourite moments was when Phil said to Francis Prior..." eh?... that's a hell of a stride you've got there!... and Prior conceded instantly that Phil was right... because... Phil WAS right! Always has been... always will be. Thank you!
Living in the USA, I didn't find Time Team until is was too late. so I watched every episode and am watching them all over again...Time Team Classics only. I just bought Phil's book from Amazon....thanks for letting us know!
Can wait to read it!!!!
What a star ⭐️ Really fascinating - hard work, tenacity and passion.
Thank you for this!
Thank you so much for this interview! I love Phil Harding (and the old TIME TEAM team)!
What a legend he is
I grew up watching him on time team
I love Phil!
I like Phil’s short shorts.
And hats and love a man with long hair ! Phil made me laugh !
Phil is a legend loved him on Time team he was fantastic love this how he explained his time as a Archaeologist
To the late great Phil Aston and his colorful sweaters. 🥂🍾
* sigh * ... Phil is showing his age. I am saying that from the same age as Phil ... pretty much. He was born 25 Jan 1950 ... and I on 02 Feb 1950 .. so he beat me here by a week. What fun to watch Phil and the others on the Time Team show. Speaking of the show .. just looked it up and it premiered in 1994 The first thing that always comes to mind thinking about the early years of the show is that Tony had hair.
What a fun romp with Phil and I was impressed enough with Mark that I sub-scribed.
Always respect Phil's work and his contribution to archaeology. Thank you Phil.