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Right Today I Am Ridiculously Privileged Because

I am able to introduce you. John Rosetti, a man of whom I was so jealous when I was in my teens that the frankly being used language doesn’t really equip me to express that and I don’t think this is either the place or all the time really for contemporary dance but John What did you do that aroused such a jealousy in me well. I took part way back in nineteen seventy-seventy. What what turned out to be in fact the first-ever reality UK show. Although the The phrase wasn’t even coined in those days, then when theNK] tried to find a group of people that would live completely isolated for more than a year in the technology of the Iron Age in the Great Britain and that’s what I took parting with my wife at the time Kate and the group of six couples in total who were picked from just people who applied to the UK and you got through their selection process and just thrown really into this primitive living and seeing how we would survive in that environment and also find out a bit about the the way of life early and what it would be like to be an Iron Age man Woman 2,000 years ago in the UK right so.

This Was Quite Different From Modern Reality

television where the standard formula is a you get twenty edits with loud. loud and clashing personalities and you make sure that they’re incompetent and you give them things they can’t do to do and watch them and make idiots of themselves and film them constantly and put together all the stupidest piece. Whereas in this case you got 15 people who actually got on reasonably well who were quite competent and most of the time actually left them to their own devices well it was incredible degree twit from the left were own devices. I mean the UK and John Percival. The producer who was a really really great guy and an archaeologist as well as a UK producer and he really wanted to bring our guilty to life and he’d take a long time to persuade the UK to allow him to take these people incarcerate them all the dangers are you know all the problems with the local planning people.

Said, Oh, Youve Got To Have Fresh Youve

got to have you know fire safety. We had none of that we’re completely isolated the whole place could have blood. Dad is literally you had no fire extinguisher and there was no safety net of that have never done that program today. Unfortunately, you just couldn’t do it and so he one of his biggest fears. If you brought a random group of people together, particularly young people.

There Were All Sorts Of Relationship Issues And

things they they’d all start fighting it would fall apart and he divested the fact that this thing had to last for a year of people completely isolated. You know cut off from modern life completely just thrown in this technology. I don’t see how they survived see what they did see what that might have taught us about the our age life and and also looking at course at our modern people could or couldn’t survive and adapt in that in that situation right you were you were recreating specifically the Iron Age, but with no attempt to make them. I made Iron Age people but you did. For instance, that you had a loom and the Loom weights were in imitation of actual Iron Age loom weights they were like trying at a shape and so forth, whereas in fact, you could have used some other shape that would have worked.

But You Wanted Iron Age Ones, So

it was to some degree a reenactment of a specific period. We weren’t really reenacting but what we were in acting was the technology yes when we were restricted by the technology, But I would actually would call it the wood age not the iron age because the iron was really used to cut wood, which was your main material and was relatively scarce No and a lot of people said to me Oh you were just playing at that because you know you could have used all the things you know in the modern world. But there was nothing I knew in the model that I could use. I couldn’t build a computer out of wood and I you know there was nothing really the only one thing I remember that would have been useful. Would have been the idea of a windmill because we spent hours and hours every day grinding corn and that was the only bit of.

Technology That We Could Have Had Or

argue about but it would have taken us years to build anyway well a dozen because I was on the bill UK Research Station years going Denmark and I was doing some hand querying so he just got a rounded love of stone in your hand and just I only burned enough to make a dozen biscuits and even in the time I was doing that I was thinking right if I this will my task. I would have invented the rotary core that afternoon because stuff there’s this steak party ball but but the you quite lucky that you had a rotary quark which was white-hot technology in the UK it’s in a poor old Bronze Age it still-you know it still took five or six hours every day for one person just to make enough flour to keep group. and fifteen of us fed with unleavened bread I’d love to see some songs done for the energy expended in grinding at the start. There how much energy you get back but you reckon if you’re learning profit just there was a lot of sweat involved yeah all right but go back to the group. So of course the producer wanted people who could get on and he never fit enough to survive and they actually put they actually chose twice as many people as they wanted They put us all together in an really hard work on a reconstructed Iron Age countered but Sahil Aureus um and then we had to vote for the people.

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We Wanted To Go With So We Kind

of like having to do the job and also ingratiate yourself with the others so you’d get voted on so it was a sort of self. selecting group right so you knew that that was the selection method with you lab what yet what I’ve been selected down to you know twice as many couples as they want it and what has happened is that we should put in the most part. I think in some ways and there’s off those six couples for have kept together right and we still have reunions meeting up with the Iron Age festival to which a four year yes so the festivals were the timer. We actually decided that we would kill an animal and drink some wine actually very very yeah. You know because that in between times were so harsh and then we’re After a year of being apart.

At The End Of The Project,

we thought we really feel strange. We’ve lost our community and we decided we get together on the on the for festivals. A year we’ve done it every year since nineteen 79. So we’re still already getting together an hour call tipster it’s the next generation down. Sometimes the whole group is about 35 people and we get over four times a year still after 35 years excellent the saying all this to me with a with a gleam in your eye.

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Structurally As I Did That This 13

months of being in the Iron Age looms. I have how big a part of your total life of those 13 months ended up being well um well. I think maybe some other people who were they would say more than me. I mean UK thought it was it was a fascinating thing to do. I was quite terrified beforehand the idea being cut off for that mad time.

I Really Was Uncertain About It Was

my wife who was pushing it. I thought you must be mad sure but I see it in the context of well just in a way. It makes you more confident because you know that if the worst come to the worst, you know you could live on bread and milk so in a ray, you know other things other others other things can therefore be put in their place, but it was also to me. Yes it makes some other things less important day-to-day stuff than you might think but I I’ve carried on with a technologically driven life in in software right but as far as I’m concerned you know evolutionary wise with exactly the same people as our age men with just doing using our brains as they did to produce the best life for us that we can the demands.

Summary

TheNK] tried to find a group of people that would live completely isolated for more than a year in the technology of the Iron Age in the Great Britain . The show turned out to be in fact the first-ever reality UK show . John Rosetti was a man of whom I was so jealous when I was in my teens that the frankly being used language doesn’t really equip me to express that and I don’t think this is either the place or all the time really for contemporary dance but John What did you do that aroused such a jealousy in me well. Right today? I am ridiculously privileged because I am able to introduce you. I am so jealous because of the privilege of being able to bring you to this stage of dance. The show will be on BBC Radio 4 tonight at 8.30pm on December 28th at 9pm. Back to Mail Online Live . Back to the page you came from.com/dailymailonline.com for all the latest from iReport….. Click here to read more and watch the full video