On Edge?
March 12, 2009 - 2:13 am
I’m not usually one to tempt Fate in any way, but this seems to be a different matter. Earlier today [Wednesday], I had what I can only describe as an uplifting and exhilarating 45 minute conversation with Keith Goodyear, producer and director at the wonderful and much-admired Edge Television.
It turned out that we had much in common as far as our interests are concerned, while I was very pleased indeed to hear Keith’s initial thoughts on my forthcoming book on the missing years of Jesus. We discussed various aspects of the book with a view to incorporating them into something for broadcast by Edge, so I’m naturally looking forward to meeting up with this great & extremely enlightened man at a time that’s convenient for us both to discuss matters further.
All this was pleasing enough, obviously, but Keith’s interests include a very broad selection of other topics, including what I’ll loosely call “archaeological goings-on that don’t often get to see the light of day”. As I feel qualified to speak with some conviction on this and certain other subjects, I’m very much looking forward to regaling Keith and his colleagues with some of the more colourful stories I personally know of, so if they deem them to be broadcastable in any way without causing public disorder, then there’s at the least the potential for an eventful and interesting year ahead, at least as far as I’m concerned.
We’ll see.
Otherwise, for those who don’t immediately recognise it, the picture at the top was taken at Tintagel last summer. For those of you who’ve not been there, I would urge you to try to do so, because it is one of the most enchanted spots in an enchanted island.
The custodians I spoke to were all very helpful, informative and enthusiastic, while if you choose to sit at the top of the island with your back to the mainland gazing out to sea, it takes little imagination to picture a sleek Phoenician galley from the Middle East carving its way through the waves toward the beach at Tintagel “in ancient time.”
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