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Richard III: The Unseen Story (2013)
TV Movie | 47 min | Documentary

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Richard III: The Unseen Story (2013)

TV Movie | 47 min | Documentary

In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scientific tests on the skeleton uses unseen footage and conducts two days of additional interviews to tell this extraordinary forensic detective ...See moreIn this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scientific tests on the skeleton uses unseen footage and conducts two days of additional interviews to tell this extraordinary forensic detective story in even greater scientific and archaeological detail. Trawling through the footage in detail and in full, the programme explains how the discovery of Richard III was made, from the first cut in the ground to the final DNA analysis. It pieces together the critical steps in the archaeological excavation - explaining how the significance of the skeleton was first recognized. It then follows the painstaking exhumation of Richard's grave. In the labs of Leicester University, the programme then follows the scientists as they clean, CT scan and examine the skeleton, closing in on his identity and learning new details about the skeleton. Along the way we discover a series of astonishing twists and turns in the scientific enquiry. At one point researchers believed the skeleton could in fact be female. The film then reveals how the doubts were dispelled, how the living relatives were traced and how the DNA match with Richard III was made. Perhaps the most harrowing stage of the project was the minute forensic examination of the cause of death. Piecing together CT scans, the team identified the major injuries that Richard suffered in the last moments of his life and shortly afterwards. With his hands bound, his body was bundled into a hastily prepared grave. And there it lay, lost for over 500 years, until a team of archaeologists made the find of the century. Written by DSP See less

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16 cast members

Name	Known for
Simon Farnaby Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Paddington 2 (2017)
Philippa Langley Self - Richard III Society Self - Richard III Society See fewer	The Lost King (2022)
Matthew Morris Self - Site Director, University of Leicester Self - Site Director, University of Leicester See fewer	Secrets (2013)
Richard Buckley Self - Lead Archaeologist, University of Leicester Self - Lead Archaeologist, University of Leicester See fewer	Mysteries at the Museum (2010)
Leon Hunt Self - Dig Supervisor, University of Leicester Self - Dig Supervisor, University of Leicester See fewer	Richard III: The King in the Car Park (2013)
Turi King Self - Geneticist, University of Leicester (as Dr Turi King) Self - Geneticist, University of Leicester (as Dr Turi King) See fewer	Cat Hunters: The Search for the Beast of Exmoor (Pilot) (2021)
Jo Appleby Self - Osteologist, University of Leicester (as Dr Jo Appleby) Self - Osteologist, University of Leicester (as Dr Jo Appleby) See fewer	Secrets (2013)
Claire Robinson Self - Advanced Forensic Practitioner Self - Advanced Forensic Practitioner See fewer	Richard III: The Unseen Story (2013)
Caroline Wilkinson Self - Craniofacial Identification Self - Craniofacial Identification See fewer	Private Lives of the Pharaohs (2000)
Piers Mitchell Self - Dept of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University (as Dr Piers Mitchell) Self - Dept of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University (as Dr Piers Mitchell) See fewer	Secrets (2013)
Lin Foxhall Self - Head of Archaeology, University of Leicester (as Professor Lin Foxhall) Self - Head of Archaeology, University of Leicester (as Professor Lin Foxhall) See fewer	Guilty Pleasures (2011)
John Ashdown-Hill Self - Historian (as Dr John Ashdown-Hill) Self - Historian (as Dr John Ashdown-Hill) See fewer	Secrets (2013)
Michael Ibsen Self - Descendent of Richard III Self - Descendent of Richard III See fewer	Secrets (2013)
Sarah Hainsworth Self - Materials Engineer Self - Materials Engineer See fewer	Catching History's Criminals: The Forensics Story (2015)
Bob Woosnam-Savage Self - Royal Armouries Self - Royal Armouries See fewer	Medieval Dead (2013)
Stuart Hamilton Self - Forensic Pathologist (as Dr Stuart Hamilton) Self - Forensic Pathologist (as Dr Stuart Hamilton) See fewer	Sister Boniface Mysteries (2022)

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