WB episodes 2020

Episodes of the Watching Brief podcast of Archaeology Soup from 2020.
==January 2020==
WB podcast episodes from January, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	History is NOT for People Like YOU! 	6 February 2020
2 	Australian Bush Fires Damage Prehistoric Sites & Potential Roman Bathhouse Blunder! 	6 February 2020
3 	Roman Wall Collapse in Chester : The Price of Responsibility? 	7 February 2020
4 	Media Picks: Holocaust Memorial Day, Welsh Legends and Myths & From Up on Poppy Hill	10 February 2020
5 	US National Archives Embroiled in Controversy... By Trying to Avoid Controversy! 	11 February 2020
6 	Brexit "Independence Day": 5% Budget Cuts Announced... Bad for Archaeology? 	13 February 2020
7 	Muppet of the Month: Trump Threatens to Bomb Historical Sites in Iran! 	16 February 2020
==February 2020==
WB podcast episodes from February, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Is "Anglo-Saxon" Racist Language? 	6 March 2020
2 	Board-Game Piece from the Time of the First Viking Raid Found on Lindisfarne! 	7 March 2020
3 	March Roman Wall Collapse in Chester : The Price of Responsibility? 	9 March 2020
4 	£160,000 Fine for Deliberate Destruction of Medieval Village Site 	10 March 2020
5 	Diverse Stories... Exploring a Broader History of Humanity! 	11 March 2020
6 	Italian Museums Close, CBA's New Exec Director & Legal Challenge at Heathrow Airport	13 March 2020
7 	Muppets of the Month: Modern Town Planning (Building on Floodplains)! 	14 March 2020
==March 2020==
WB podcast episodes from March, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Can The Heritage Sector/ Archaeology Survive Covid-19? 	2 April 2020
2 	Hobby Lobby Returns 11,500 Artefacts of 'Dubious Origin' 	6 April 2020
3 	Are Archaeologists Destroying Britain's Heritage? 	6 April 2020
4 	Muppet of the Month: Easter Island Anger after Truck Crashes into Sacred Statue!	8 April 2020
5 	Groundbreaking Women Archaeologists! 	10 April 2020
6 	Media Picks: Doomsday Preppers & All 96 Episodes of Time Team Available Online! 	13 April 2020
==April 2020==
WB podcast episodes from April, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Most of Zagreb’s Museums Damaged by March Earthquakes 	3 May 2020
2 	Updates: Notre Dame One Year Later & Hobby Lobby Oxford Professor Arrested 	3 May 2020
3 	Muppet of the Month: Satanic Giants Built Stonehenge!? 	4 May 2020
4 	Anger as Historic England U-Turn Greenlights Old Oswestry Planning Application 	5 May 2020
5 	The Good & Bad of Heritage Sector Response to COVID-19 	6 May 2020
6 	Cyprus Shipwreck: Illegal Excavation or Historical Discovery? Beyond the Headlines!	8 May 2020
8 	Sword-wielding Scientists Investigate Bronze Age Fighting Techniques! 	9 May 2020
8 	Two Obituaries: Aubrey Burl & Iris Love 	12 May 2020
9 	Media Picks: Nathan Drake Collection (UNCHARTED) & Michael Wood's Story of England 	13 May 2020
==May 2020==
WB podcast episodes from May, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Carbon Dating is Getting an Exciting Update! 	2 June 2020
2 	Guidelines, Emergency Measures, Taskforces & Smugglers: COVID-19 & Archaeology 	3 June 2020
3 	Muppets of the Month: Armed Police Arrest Man Dressed as Knight & 'MyTrueAncestry.com'	5 June 2020
4 	Rio Tinto BLASTS 46,000 Year Old Aboriginal Site for Iron Ore Mine 	6 June 2020
5 	Hobby Lobby Sues Christies, Wants us to Feel Sorry for Them 	7 June 2020
5 	Media Picks: A House Through Time & Germany's VE Day Commemorations 	8 June 2020
6 	Livestream Special: Discussing the Toppling of Edward Colston Statue in Bristol 	June 2020
==June 2020==
WB podcast episodes from June, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Outrage as 'Space Archaeologist' Sarah Parcak Advises How to Topple Statues!? 	3 July 2020
2 	Muppets of the Month: Thugs 'Defend' Statues from No One & Fight the Police! 	4 July 2020
3 	Latvian Legenda Group Told to Cease & Desist in search for Lost Royal Navy Personnel!	5 July 2020
4 	Fraud Archaeologist, Mayan Discovery & Big Changes on the Horizon for UK Archaeology!	6 July 2020
5 	Media Picks: Black and British: A Forgotton History & Bethany Hughes' Greek Odyssey 	7 July 2020
5 	'Hole Henge' Monument Discovered in Stonehenge Landscape 	8 July 2020
6 	Archaeology & COVID-19: Looking Back & Moving Forwards 	10 July 2020
==July 2020==
WB podcast episodes from July, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Origin of Stonehenge Sarsen Stones Found! 	7 August 2020
2 	New Homes to Get 'Automatic' Approval in England, Despite Archaeology etc? 	8 August 2020
3 	Magnet Fishing in Leeds, Leads to Bomb Scare! 	9 August 2020
4 	1619 Project & UK Citizenship Tests: Re-Thinking the Founding of Nations! 	10 August 2020
5 	Moscow's Interest in the Hagia Sophia Reverting to a Working Mosque? 	11 August 2020
6 	Muppets of the Month: Elon Musk 'Pyramids Built by Aliens' & American Anthropological Association	13 August 2020
7 	Media Picks: Old Guard & Yesterday Channel New Series 	15 August 2020
==August 2020==
WB podcast episodes from August, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Muppet of the Month: President Trump is Blundering Through Our History! 	4 September 2020
2 	Britain's First Ever 'Viking' Helmet Confirmed (The Importance of Archives) 	6 September 2020
3 	Blackstone Group buys Ancestry.com & Brontë Parsonage Raising Money to Stay Open! 	7 September 2020
4 	Beirut blast: Dozens of Historic Buildings in Lebanon Capital at Risk of Collapse!	10 September 2020
5 	Media Picks: Mortal Engines, History Hack, NautArchSoc & Others... 	12 September 2020
6 	National Trust Plans are an 'Assault' on 'Historical Expertise'!? 	14 September 2020
7 	British Museum 'Removes' Statue of Slave-Owning Founder 	16 September 2020
==September 2020==
WB podcast episodes from September, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Lovely Ladies Loos Listed & Stonehenge Tunnel Investigations "Adequate" 	10 October 2020
2 	Pink Wellies get the Boot as Police Stop Metal Detecting Rally Breaching COVID Rules 	11 October 2020
3 	Trump, Tik Tok & Teaching 'Real' American History 	12 October 2020
4 	Muppet of the Month: Shrewsbury Castle Team 'Digs in the Wrong Castle' 	14 October 2020
5 	Thousands of Students COVID Positive on Return to University 	15 October 2020
6 	Royal Academy’s Cruel Dilemma: Sell a Michelangelo or Cut 150 Jobs! 	15 October 2020
7 	Media Picks: Richard III Film in Development, Britain's Biggest Dig & Bone Detectives	17 October 2020
==October 2020==
WB podcast episodes from October, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Muppet of the Month: Magna Carta Vs. COVID Lockdown!? 	8 November 2020
2 	The Emerging Future of British Archaeology Outside the European Union? 	9 November 2020
3 	Link of the Month: Paper Chase: The Print Master, The Spymaster... By Joseph Hone 	11 November 2020
4 	Khan't Mention His Name! (China Censors Exhibition on Genghis Khan) 	11 November 2020
5 	COVID-19: Student Exodus Begins (Heritage Sector Leaders Go Quiet) 	13 November 2020
6 	Advanced Water Filtration Discovered at Tikal, Peruvian Cats & Dog DNA! 	15 November 2020
7 	Media Picks: Barbarians (Netflix) & War Walks (BBC 2) & Discussing Narrative Style	15 November 2020
==November 2020==
WB podcast episodes from November, in their release order.
Order	Video topic 	Release date
1 	Re-Thinking Doggerland's Demise! 	12 December 2020
2 	Study Hopes to Recreate Smells of History 	13 December 2020
3 	Muppet of the Month: Botched Restoration in Spain - Smiling Statue Unrecognizable! 	14 December 2020
4 	The Ghosts of Stonehenge!? The Fight for the Soul of Archaeology? 	17 December 2020
5 	National Trust, Leeds Uni & Netflix's The Crown Targeted by 'Culture War' Accusations	18 December 2020
6 	Media Picks: Doomsday, Queen of the Desert & RIP Sean Connery 	20 December 2020
7 	A Selection of Lovely Links 	22 December 2020
==December 2020==
There were no WB podcast episodes for December 2020.
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