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Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find. Link of the Month: Black History Month: https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/ Black history has much to reveal about our ancestors – and ourselves: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/30/black-history-month-ancestors ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZYTBO9NmOU

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find. Link of the Month: ‘Google Maps’ of Ancient Roman World: https://tinyurl.com/yxe7bnr7 Links: Mystery of Chedworth’s 1,800-year-old Roman glass shard solved: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/22/mystery-of-chedworth-1800-year-old-roman-glass-shard-solved?CMP=share_btn_tw&fbclid=IwAR2_5ZNEkbKxXV1wrIfemRY1jUMlmyQD9HUfqExDCy6pbW2D7GQL0Fak3Kk Archaeology student finds exceptionally rare fragment from Roman bottle: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-archaeology-student-exceptionally-rare-fragment.html?fbclid=IwAR1VV_rL1GgUsICVHfkDFAiuIn4rXZkFU88Fyn9FwawuGQXQrz6PJwz6nm4 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q2lkzzfjjc

Welcome to Watching Brief. As the name implies, each week Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what they find. #archaeologynews #thepipeline #archaeosoup Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/archaeosoup *** 0:00 Introduction 2:21 PAS ‘Missing Artefacts’ Arrest! 7:07 Restore Trust Exposed! 14:56 Parthenon Marbles Progress? 28:46 Planning Policy: Crucial Test Cases 47:23 Lack of Policy Stability? 51:36 Support Us on Patreon! 52:20 Lost Emperor Sponsian: Confirmed? 57:06 Spurious Sponsian? 1:03:13 Heads I Win, Tails You Lose! 1:04:28 Paduan Roman Medallions 1:07:16 Carl Wilhelm Becker 1:08:56 Beware of What You Read! 1:10:12 The Danger of Incorrect Reporting 1:12:10 Graham Hancock Was RIGHT! 1:17:48 Christmas Special Coming Up *** Link of the Week: Disasters Emergency Committee: https://www.dec.org.uk/ *** Links: PAS Preston Missing artefacts: If anyone has any information or can help with our enquiries, call 101 or email forcecontrolroom@lancashire.police.uk, quoting investigation number 04/116599/22 Arrest in Preston Museum Missing Treasure Investigation: http://thepipeline.info/blog/2022/12/22/arrest-in-preston-museum-missing-treasure-investigation/ Get the National Trust back to its real mission: https://www.restoretrust.org.uk/ A thread from Celia Richardson, head of comm's at the National Trust https://twitter.com/CeliaRichards0n/status/1600376896730038273 Is the UK National Trust influenced by a campaign group funded by lobbyists? https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/06/is-the-national-trust-the-victim-of-astroturfing Tufton Street: Shine a light on dark money in politics: https://goodlawproject.org/case/tufton-street-shine-a-light-on-dark-money-in-politics/ *** No 10 rules out law change for return of Parthenon marbles: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/dec/05/no-10-rules-out-changing-law-return-parthenon-marbles-greece The British Museum Is Said to Be Reaching a Deal With Greece on the Parthenon Marbles. But the U.K. Warns It Can’t Break Up Its Collection: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-parthenon-marbles-warning-2222924 Greece in ‘preliminary’ talks with British Museum about Parthenon marbles: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/dec/03/greece-in-preliminary-talks-with-british-museum-about-parthenon-marbles The Pope Returns Vatican’s Parthenon Marbles to Greece: https://greekreporter.com/2022/12/16/pope-returns-vatican-parthenon-marbles-greece/ *** Permitted development rights for householders: technical guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permitted-development-rights-for-householders-technical-guidance SAVE seeks Court of Appeal permission to challenge historic school demolition: https://www.savebritainsheritage.org/campaigns/item/849/PRESS-RELEASE-SAVE-seeks-Court-of-Appeal-permission-to-challenge-historic-school-demolition Objections raised to National Gallery’s plans for Grade I listed Sainsbury Wing: https://c20society.org.uk/news/objections-raised-to-national-gallerys-plans-for-grade-i-sainsbury-wing ‘Like a clown in a tutu’: London’s National Gallery architect steps into row over revamp plan: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/27/clown-tutu-london-national-gallery-architect-denise-scott-brown-sainsbury-wing National Gallery secures resolution to grant planning permission for suite of capital projects coinciding with the Gallery’s Bicentenary: https://tinyurl.com/5n82ndc2 *** SPONSIAN: ANOTHER LOST EMPEROR: https://antigonejournal.com/2022/11/sponsian-fake-emperor/ Ancient Roman coins reveal long-lost emperor: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/nov/ancient-roman-coins-reveal-long-lost-emperor Gold coin proves Roman Emperor lost to history did exist: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63740499 Authenticating coins of the ‘Roman emperor’ Sponsian: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0274285 When is a Roman emperor not an emperor? | Blog post by Mary Beard https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/when-is-a-roman-emperor-not-an-emperor-sponsian-blog-post-mary-beard/ Paduan “fake” Roman coins https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG105155 Early 19th century German fake Roman coins by Carl Wilhelm Becker https://thomasnumismatics.com/en/blog/carl-wilhelm-becker/ *** 11,000-Year-Old Carving of Man Holding His Penis, Surrounded by Leopards, Is Oldest-Known Depiction of a Narrative Scene: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/11000-year-old-carving-of-man-holding-his-penis-is-oldest-known-depiction-of-a-narrative-scene-turkey-1234649681 The Sayburç reliefs: a narrative scene from the Neolithic: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/sayburc-reliefs-a-narrative-scene-from-the-neolithic/3A35B54B3265C7224CB225FE70EBDD02 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL5OdXh_Tfg