Stone Age Sound

Available for 29 days

The Passage Grave at Newgrange in Ireland - built around 5,000 years ago - is one of the most well-preserved Neolithic sites of its kind. Archaeologist Aaron Watson and acoustics expert Dave Keating visit the site and conduct a series of tests to try to determine how Neolithic man might have experienced such a monument through sound. Presented by Joanna Pinnock. Producer: Sheena Duncan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001.