Rupert D. Bayer if I remember correctly I was , as the young girl, trying to receive the attention off of my bird who I had lost. It was filmed a while ago so my memory is a bit blurry xx
+Teganskye1 Thanks for the reply! I wondered, as she (you :-) ) was looking over her shoulder to the Roman-British burial while blowing the whistle. Perhaps that was a different time altogether, although her clothes looked Romano-British and I thought perhaps she was trying, in her grief, to call her father back with the same whistle he used to call back his hawks..
I don't know how many of you realise this, but MacKenzie took up detecting whilst making the series and he actually found that Hawker's whistle for real on the land where they filmed with his XP Deus (which you see him using in each episode). He decided to write it into the script. (He also later found a Roman gold artefact and it had to be sent to the British Museum for evaluation). He said in an interview that it was full of dirt, so he cleaned it out and blew it - just like you see here. Isn't it just fantastic that he let his imagination run wild from this find and shared it with us in the script.
The best writing comes from experience. I think what made The Detectorists such an excellent series isn't just the hilarious comedy, but its wholesomeness. It's largely about the mundane - two ordinary blokes with ordinary lives in an ordinary part of the English countryside, who happen to have an interest in the niche hobby of metal detecting. But it also has these rare moments where we get a glimpse of the past in these brilliantly produced scenes. This one was a real lump-in-the-throat moment, beautifully placed, reminding us that every find, however mundane it appears, has a story behind it involving real people who just happened to have lived centuries before us.
@@MayaTheMonkey And so is that Unthanks song, especially the version recorded for later JH. And so is, the king of Rome, recorded with the brighouse band. !
Yanto2013 I think it might be the best pure television creation ever conceived and realized. It's not really a comedy, though that's of course how it was billed; it's about the preciousness of life, told through the lives of ordinary, but oddly passionate, people. It's about our need for connectedness with our land, our history, and each other. While I'm sure Mackenzie would laugh at the suggestion, these 19 slices of the mundane, kissed by the mystical, have said more about what it truly means to seek the good life than anything before them. Truly magical.
There are some TV moments you just wish you could 'unsee' - just for that stunned feeling you had seeing it for the first time. Last Blackadder of course, and the last few moments of Upstart Crow had it too - but this, THIS - the jewel in the crown BBC. And the last episode of the Detectorists was perfect in every way. Thank you Mackenzie Crook. Unbeatable.
Yep. The last few moments there were totally unexpected and one of those moments when TV makes you sit up in your seat and think 'something exceptional is happening here'.
My son and I detect and I watched this episode for the first time last night. I remarked that in 35 years of detecting I had Never found a hawking whistle and would love to find one. We both went detecting today and within 10 minutes my son walked over to me and handed me a beautiful hawking whistle to say I was utterly shocked was an understatement.we cleaned the mud out of the whistle and was the same shrill pitch.sometimes things happen in life we can’t explain.
as an American whos ancestors left Europe at some point and lost all knowledge of my true heritage. are the whistles that common to find, what time range would they have been used in? and i was curious what exactly are they made from, meaning ceramic, metallic, bone wood or what?
@@newwavepop Whistles were used extensively during the Roman era, so their use goes back 2,000 years at least. I have examined quite a few Roman whistles over the past thirty years and have found most of them to be similar to the hawking whistle dug by Mackenzie, only larger. All those I personally inspected were made of bronze, but I've seen museum photos of Roman whistles made from bone. There is some speculation among historians that whistles were used by Roman Army centurions to relay small unit commands to their troops in battle, but hard evidence for this use is virtually non-existent, so the jury is definitely still out. At any rate, whistles have been in use for a long, long time.
@@newwavepop this is when I was running detecting tours in the Czech Republic, those were good years for finding hawking whistles. I found two in pewter and a client found two in silver, much older. Man I love metal detecting, I haven't been for almost a year.
i found one in a field in Wales a few years ago.Wish I could remember where it was. I'd go back and stand on the same spot and just let my imagination run wild.
I am a hard-core metal detectorist...for over a dozen years. Relics are my main interest, and this BBC TV show, and this clip, sums up what most of us feel. The connection to the past. First time I watched this a tear ran down my cheek. Hats off to all people who made this show possible
I genuinely want to take it up as a hobby. I have a female friend who does it, but they seem to be trying to put me off more than anything. They told me I need to find a site with permission before I go out and buy a detector, otherwise its pointless. Fair enough, so I'll join a club. She belongs to an all-girl detectorists club, which is cool, but I'm not trying to muscle in. I'm just looking for a hobby that suits my interest in history. I was hoping to find a club near me that isnt gender restricted, but there's little information on where to find out about local clubs. I'm in the north of Scotland, but the only Scottish club I found information on is based in Edinburgh, about 120 miles away, so thats no good. Perhaps I should relocate to Essex? Any advice is much appreciated.
@@stuartmack7658 I think you are on the right track by showing string interest in the hobby. I live in Nebraska, in the USA. Our oldest finds here in the Midwest date to about 1820s...I have dug Indian artifacts too. So where you are sitting, in Scotland, are in the Hotspot and in golden territory as your history dates back thousands of years. I did detect around Spain this year, my wife is from Madrid and dug about a dozen hammered coins, buttons and relics. Pottery and other stuff. As a matter of fact my ancestors, great grandfather emigrated here from Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1850s...so I can feel a bit of that running thru my veins. My advice, get a good detector, a Minelab 800 or an XPDEUS, and just start detecting public places. Dig all consistent signals, learn the machine. You will dig trash but also some treasure, it may just be coins but it's all good. IMHO, the best all around, relaxing and interesting hobby one can do ! Keep me posted on your progress and finds !
@@stuartmack7658 Did you take up the hobby in the end Stuart? If not I hope you do eventually. I've not detected since the 70s. Luckily I detected with a 15 year old extrovert (I was 14). My dad used to drop us off next to farm houses. My friend just walked up to the door ignoring large barking dogs to ask for permission. 9/10 it was given. He was even given an unwanted detector once by a farmer. I think it was a pulse induction detector (forgotten what that means). Even at that age and not wanting to lose precious finds we showed the land owners what we had found so they could take a few items. They normally took nothing or things that might have been lost by their ancestral family, not the more financially valuable finds. Some lovely people out there.
This programme is an absolute gem in a sea of TV banality; beautifully shot and acted and with utterly sublime writing by Mackenzie Crook. The Unthanks music fits perfectly too.
It's the tiny things that make this show the utter gem that it is. That subtle shiver that Andy gives after he blows the falconer's whistle, as if the full weight of the centuries had just been rekindled in that single straining note. It's easy to miss, but it makes the whole scene. Binge-watching the show the second time through now, and still catching little details like this. Genius.
Peter - lovely comment. As you may see, from other posts here, which allude to the author: M.R. James, considered by many to be the master, without parallel, as regards the writing and telling of English ghost-stories: the apprehension in the clip, at the prospect, in advance, of blowing the whistle - and the subsequent shiver, at the brush with the uncanny, in the wake of the whistle having been blown, is a deliberate nod to what is arguably James' most famous story: "Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad". This story mirrors (and is the inspiration for) the clip; but with the story being of the chance finding, in turn-of-the-twentieth-century rural England, of a buried whistle from the Roman era, where the foolhardy finder blows the whistle, without first having sought to translate the Latin phrase, with which the side of the whistle is embossed - namely, that should anyone but the owner presume to blow the whistle... *they may expect a visitor...* Greetings to all, from Hertfordshire.
@@johnreeves6286 ... you have inspired me to find and read 'Oh whistle....' I loved Detectorists and loved these sepia sections where the origins of the finds were laid... and the music/soundtrack and characters were sublime the whole way through. As someone further up/down (?) in the comments said I wish I hadn't seen this series so that I could watch it for the first time. See University Challenge last night?
I just noticed something else. The girl blows the whistle twice at 1:40, indicating, by the following song lyrics "joy." Fascinating, considering the cirmcumstances. And then, if you go back a bit, Andy only blows it once, indicating sorrow.... Considering the care put into the writing of this show, I cannot for a moment believe any of this was just coincidence.
@@johnreeves6286 My favourite ghost story, especially the 1968 TV translation , staring the late GREAT, Michael Hordern. It triggered the ''Ghost Story For Christmas'' annual treat, for several years. Always shown last thing, on Boxing night, when the family had gone to bed. I watched it alone, ( from behind the sofa).
This blew my mind the first time I saw it, you just don't expect it. So beautifully shot. Mackenzie Crooks is a huge talent, it's good he's finally getting the recognition he deserves.
He's been a terrific character actor for over a decade. He was fantastic in POTC and Game of Thrones. But yes, I'm so glad that he's finally got a terrific leading part. Love Andy and Lance!
Totally hypnotic ending. This is the song we used to sing as kids.."One for Sorrow, two for joy etc" Absolutely wonderful and very clever -Receding tree lines and ghosts from the past. Please Mackenzie another series...!!!
Mackenzie Crook should be so proud of Detectorists. If he read all the comments on all the TH-cam videos he would be in tears at the joy he has given so many people.
As a Detectorist I loved every minute of every episode, however, this particular bit really put the hairs up on the back of my neck and shiver down my spine, we all imagine sometimes how what we find got there and who put/lost it there in the first place, this truly is a wonderful depiction of this, beautifully done.
The subtleties that run through this entire show just keep coming,the more times you watch it the more it reveals,it really is the gift that keeps on giving.
It catches exactly the feeling, the atmosphere and the magic of metal detecting. Epic. Funny thing: as soon as he put the whistle to his mouth I said: "and in that moment you think when and who was the last one using it." That s what comes to my mind every time I dig up something.
When the trees shrink as time goes backwards... dunno, there’s just something poetic and thought provoking about it... one forgets the country landscape hasn’t always been the way it is now I guess... anyway gives me a weird primeval feeling! Love this show... 🏴
This is the best show ever . I’m a Detectorist myself and he’s got to carry on with more episodes and show the world how fabulous this hobby is .i live in the location it was filmed .if it wasn’t for us spending hours and hours in the rain snow and gorgeous sunshine , none of this amazing history would never be uncovered, if this was aired on itv instead of bbc 4 it would have been more popular than it is now . I’ve just purchased all 3 series and was brilliant
He found that Hawker's whistle for real, after taking up detecting and obtaining permission to detect on the land where they filmed. I expect you knew that as you're a local but others might find it interesting
I'm almost certain it wasn't CGI, it looked real to me as well. TV shows which are filmed on location instead of a greenscreen box, are usually done without any CGI (unless if we're talking about a Game of Thrones-style, high-budget series, which is nothing like Detectorists).
I use to go detecting, I always wonder how many pot of gold that I missed. When walking the fields, there's a sense of feeling that you are linking to the past, especially if you find something. You try to imagine the person who lost the artefact way back then and life was in that area.
This show is not only brilliant but it inspired me to take up detecting and the hobby is as gratifying as Lance and Andy play it out. Any time I’ve tried to describe the allure of detecting, time travel is always part of it. Big thanks to Mackenzie for a beautiful show.
Dear producer, director and actor, please shoot a sequel to this fantastically beautiful and funny series "Detectorists"! It is the best series on television that I have ever seen, even if it was only shown on Arte with translated subtitles for German television and can be seen in the media library there until October. Perhaps it would also be dubbed linguistically by a German, I think it would be able to achieve a good success with us in Germany. Although I love the original English language version very much, because the voices and the actors are just wonderful. In all honesty, "Detectorists" is really great, please please shoot more of it, the audience will thank you! Especially now in the gloomy Corana times ,detectorits is simply a bright light in the television sky, and probably brings many people to start with this wonderful hobby. I've been looking for my detector myself since 2012, it helps me to understand nature better every day and has helped me a lot in coping with the grief of my wife who passed away too early. Please let this series live again, people will thank you.
I fully agreewith you. The whole concept has a world-wide appeal, especially in countries with a long history worth investigating, and encouraging those who it may appeal to, becoming detectorists. Europe has such a long history of occupation and re-occupation, making the chance of finding 'treasure' far more likely.
One character in the 2nd series, Daniel Donskoy lived in Germany as a young person. He speaks many languages and in this series is the man with reddish hair who's looking for the downed WWII plane. He's an good actor and musician also. I've seen him in other series, some translated from German to English. He's also very funny in Ste Maik. I'd prefer seeing subtitles rather than a dubbed language in this series. It's the quality of their voices, lovely accents and gentleness that's so important to the whole story line.
@@susanssolinsky262Thank you for the information about the German actor. Very talented! … I agree with you totally about subtitles: It is important to hear the qualities of the original actors’ voices, and the meaning can be read in the subtitles at the same time; much preferred over dubbing!
I was late in finding Detectorists but 7 years on I can be another person to spread the word of this wonderful series. Magpie is a beautiful song, one I have now recommended our singing group adds to its repertoire. I think I’ve watched this one scene 6 times in 48 hours! Thank you for lighting up our knowledge of history.
Just discovered this Absolute jem of a programme !!!!! Very wonderful and life affirming!! After watching this series I don't really begrudge cost of my TV licence!!! Beautiful television!! Thankyou BBC, you can still excell, occasionally!!!
This programme can take you through every emotion in one half hour episode have you Laughing hard one minute and crying the next . Great TV more of the same Please . And just to top it off great Music .
stacey Bashford Sadly, the third season will be the last. But we have been left with 19 mini masterpieces that one can watch again and again without their ever becoming stale. Indeed, the cultural and internal cross references are so many and multilayered that it takes a few close watchings to pick them up. Some, perhaps, will never be noticed by those who didn't grow up in 1970s Britain. To call this a perfect example of concept, scriptwriting, and execution hardly does it justice.
IN THE 3 BOX-SET, 'SPECIAL' ADDITIONS, MACKENZIE SAID, A 4TH IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE, HE'S JUST SO BUSY , PREFER'S DIRECTING, AND GETTING ALL THE CREW AND ACTORS TOGETHER AGAIN, WILL BE DIFFICULT, BUT---HE LEFT IT OPEN.
Loved this series, watched it all over the festive season, it was the only thing that got me through it. If only there was more TV like this fewer people would complain about their license fee, I really hope that Mackenzie Crook digs deep and writes series, I am far from finished with it yet.
I always seem to have 'something in my eye' whenever I watch this scene. Magpies. The 70s tv show called 'Magpie' had a version of this song that just does not prepare you for the emotional hammer blow that is the traditional arrangement. The lyrics get you right in the soul. This will be played at my funeral.
Perfect ending, with a perfect song, by the fantastic Unthanks. Wonderful recent news to hear The Detectorists is returning this Christmas. Cannot wait.
Detectorists was a such a brilliantly written series . Beatufilly observed , each character cleverly crafted and never patronising about the hobby of metal detecting . I loved it from start to finish.
Absolutely brilliant programme and this ending was a rare tv moment of great depth. I hadn't even been aware of the programme until I saw Mackenzie interviewed by Richard Herring following which I binge watched all 3 series and hope there are more in the future.
I cant top this, Love the unthanks, music has places you can exploit these ideas TV lost the ability in the 70's, this is awesome, just the best TV, Time travel in a TR7 and a tree
I started off just being delighted by the Whistle and I'll Come to You parody, then there followed the funeral and the most amazing description of archaeology. Magnificent.
@@newwavepop Whistle and I'll Come to You is a classic TV ghost story about a man who digs a whistle out of an ancient graveyard, but finds it summons a demonic presence to pursue him. Look it up - it's bound to be on youtube.
Stunning piece of cinematography, acting and effects combined that sets the series up. Love the music as well, just perfect. When I first saw it I back tracked as I thought seeing the trees move was playing tricks on me. If I had waited a minute, all would have been revealed.
Thanks for sharing, this always brings a tear to my eye and somehow sends a shiver down my spine the perfect ending to an outstanding bit if television... This tune I find very moving and the choice of music throughout the series as well as great cast and locations ... It almost makes me want to move to 'Danebury' just to join the club!!
This was amazing to film ! Thank you to Mackenzie crook who is such an amazing director and actor. And thank you for all the supportive comments xx
+Teganskye1 It was a wonderful scene. Do you think the girl was trying to call back her father? That's how it seemed to me.
Rupert D. Bayer if I remember correctly I was , as the young girl, trying to receive the attention off of my bird who I had lost. It was filmed a while ago so my memory is a bit blurry xx
+Teganskye1 Thanks for the reply!
I wondered, as she (you :-) ) was looking over her shoulder to the Roman-British burial while blowing the whistle.
Perhaps that was a different time altogether, although her clothes looked Romano-British and I thought perhaps she was trying, in her grief, to call her father back with the same whistle he used to call back his hawks..
Rupert D. Bayer that may well have been intended and is a very smart thought. Perhaps this was intended. I’m not overly sure xx
+Teganskye1 I must write to Mackenzie Crook and ask :-)
By the way, you played it very well, with just a look.
I don't know how many of you realise this, but MacKenzie took up detecting whilst making the series and he actually found that Hawker's whistle for real on the land where they filmed with his XP Deus (which you see him using in each episode). He decided to write it into the script. (He also later found a Roman gold artefact and it had to be sent to the British Museum for evaluation). He said in an interview that it was full of dirt, so he cleaned it out and blew it - just like you see here. Isn't it just fantastic that he let his imagination run wild from this find and shared it with us in the script.
Wow I didn't know that. I regularly go out with my equinox 800 and a hawking whistle is one of my ultimate bucket list finds. I'll keep looking.
That was my favorite scene in the whole series….it was magical.
The best writing comes from experience. I think what made The Detectorists such an excellent series isn't just the hilarious comedy, but its wholesomeness. It's largely about the mundane - two ordinary blokes with ordinary lives in an ordinary part of the English countryside, who happen to have an interest in the niche hobby of metal detecting. But it also has these rare moments where we get a glimpse of the past in these brilliantly produced scenes. This one was a real lump-in-the-throat moment, beautifully placed, reminding us that every find, however mundane it appears, has a story behind it involving real people who just happened to have lived centuries before us.
@@stuartmack7658Yes! Well said!
@@MayaTheMonkey And so is that Unthanks song, especially the version recorded for later JH.
And so is, the king of Rome, recorded with the brighouse band. !
Best thing on TV in over 40 years
Yanto2013 I think it might be the best pure television creation ever conceived and realized. It's not really a comedy, though that's of course how it was billed; it's about the preciousness of life, told through the lives of ordinary, but oddly passionate, people. It's about our need for connectedness with our land, our history, and each other.
While I'm sure Mackenzie would laugh at the suggestion, these 19 slices of the mundane, kissed by the mystical, have said more about what it truly means to seek the good life than anything before them. Truly magical.
@planet42 I feel I grew up watching the same things the creators of this show did.
@@DpHsHd So very well said.
@planet42 AGREE!
Here here...
There are some TV moments you just wish you could 'unsee' - just for that stunned feeling you had seeing it for the first time. Last Blackadder of course, and the last few moments of Upstart Crow had it too - but this, THIS - the jewel in the crown BBC. And the last episode of the Detectorists was perfect in every way. Thank you Mackenzie Crook. Unbeatable.
Yep. The last few moments there were totally unexpected and one of those moments when TV makes you sit up in your seat and think 'something exceptional is happening here'.
Rem acu tetigisti. We love to see them first, again. Still doesn't steal from its brilliance. Remember seeing it and being uttlerly floored. Brillaint
100%
As the sun dips. Pub !
Agreed absolutely ❤
My son and I detect and I watched this episode for the first time last night. I remarked that in 35 years of detecting I had Never found a hawking whistle and would love to find one. We both went detecting today and within 10 minutes my son walked over to me and handed me a beautiful hawking whistle to say I was utterly shocked was an understatement.we cleaned the mud out of the whistle and was the same shrill pitch.sometimes things happen in life we can’t explain.
yes---but what we want to know is-----did the unthanks appear
@@MrDaiseymay no but he did find another whistle on the next session.unbelievable 😳
Very cool!
@@aquatekt1402 WELL QUITE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
As a fellow detectorist I've found several hawking whistles, it's about as close as you can come to communicating with the dead.
as an American whos ancestors left Europe at some point and lost all knowledge of my true heritage. are the whistles that common to find, what time range would they have been used in? and i was curious what exactly are they made from, meaning ceramic, metallic, bone wood or what?
@@newwavepop Whistles were used extensively during the Roman era, so their use goes back 2,000 years at least. I have examined quite a few Roman whistles over the past thirty years and have found most of them to be similar to the hawking whistle dug by Mackenzie, only larger. All those I personally inspected were made of bronze, but I've seen museum photos of Roman whistles made from bone. There is some speculation among historians that whistles were used by Roman Army centurions to relay small unit commands to their troops in battle, but hard evidence for this use is virtually non-existent, so the jury is definitely still out. At any rate, whistles have been in use for a long, long time.
Oh, I like that sentiment 🙂
@@newwavepop this is when I was running detecting tours in the Czech Republic, those were good years for finding hawking whistles. I found two in pewter and a client found two in silver, much older. Man I love metal detecting, I haven't been for almost a year.
i found one in a field in Wales a few years ago.Wish I could remember where it was. I'd go back and stand on the same spot and just let my imagination run wild.
This was a truly beautiful series, one of the increasingly rare reasons to believe that humanity has a future.
This is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful film scenes worth 5 Oscars!
I never get tired watching it, over and over.
I have watched the series at least three times…it is so good.
I am a hard-core metal detectorist...for over a dozen years. Relics are my main interest, and this BBC TV show, and this clip, sums up what most of us feel. The connection to the past. First time I watched this a tear ran down my cheek. Hats off to all people who made this show possible
I genuinely want to take it up as a hobby. I have a female friend who does it, but they seem to be trying to put me off more than anything. They told me I need to find a site with permission before I go out and buy a detector, otherwise its pointless. Fair enough, so I'll join a club. She belongs to an all-girl detectorists club, which is cool, but I'm not trying to muscle in. I'm just looking for a hobby that suits my interest in history. I was hoping to find a club near me that isnt gender restricted, but there's little information on where to find out about local clubs. I'm in the north of Scotland, but the only Scottish club I found information on is based in Edinburgh, about 120 miles away, so thats no good. Perhaps I should relocate to Essex? Any advice is much appreciated.
@@stuartmack7658 I think you are on the right track by showing string interest in the hobby. I live in Nebraska, in the USA. Our oldest finds here in the Midwest date to about 1820s...I have dug Indian artifacts too. So where you are sitting, in Scotland, are in the Hotspot and in golden territory as your history dates back thousands of years.
I did detect around Spain this year, my wife is from Madrid and dug about a dozen hammered coins, buttons and relics. Pottery and other stuff. As a matter of fact my ancestors, great grandfather emigrated here from Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1850s...so I can feel a bit of that running thru my veins.
My advice, get a good detector, a Minelab 800 or an XPDEUS, and just start detecting public places. Dig all consistent signals, learn the machine.
You will dig trash but also some treasure, it may just be coins but it's all good. IMHO, the best all around, relaxing and interesting hobby one can do !
Keep me posted on your progress and finds !
@@stuartmack7658 Did you take up the hobby in the end Stuart? If not I hope you do eventually. I've not detected since the 70s. Luckily I detected with a 15 year old extrovert (I was 14). My dad used to drop us off next to farm houses. My friend just walked up to the door ignoring large barking dogs to ask for permission. 9/10 it was given. He was even given an unwanted detector once by a farmer. I think it was a pulse induction detector (forgotten what that means). Even at that age and not wanting to lose precious finds we showed the land owners what we had found so they could take a few items. They normally took nothing or things that might have been lost by their ancestral family, not the more financially valuable finds. Some lovely people out there.
This programme is an absolute gem in a sea of TV banality; beautifully shot and acted and with utterly sublime writing by Mackenzie Crook. The Unthanks music fits perfectly too.
He's also improved children's TV with his wonderful adaptations of Wurzel Gummidge.
It's the tiny things that make this show the utter gem that it is. That subtle shiver that Andy gives after he blows the falconer's whistle, as if the full weight of the centuries had just been rekindled in that single straining note. It's easy to miss, but it makes the whole scene. Binge-watching the show the second time through now, and still catching little details like this. Genius.
Peter - lovely comment. As you may see, from other posts here, which allude to the author: M.R. James, considered by many to be the master, without parallel, as regards the writing and telling of English ghost-stories: the apprehension in the clip, at the prospect, in advance, of blowing the whistle - and the subsequent shiver, at the brush with the uncanny, in the wake of the whistle having been blown, is a deliberate nod to what is arguably James' most famous story: "Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad".
This story mirrors (and is the inspiration for) the clip; but with the story being of the chance finding, in turn-of-the-twentieth-century rural England, of a buried whistle from the Roman era, where the foolhardy finder blows the whistle, without first having sought to translate the Latin phrase, with which the side of the whistle is embossed - namely, that should anyone but the owner presume to blow the whistle... *they may expect a visitor...*
Greetings to all, from Hertfordshire.
@@johnreeves6286 ... you have inspired me to find and read 'Oh whistle....' I loved Detectorists and loved these sepia sections where the origins of the finds were laid... and the music/soundtrack and characters were sublime the whole way through. As someone further up/down (?) in the comments said I wish I hadn't seen this series so that I could watch it for the first time.
See University Challenge last night?
* these series
I just noticed something else. The girl blows the whistle twice at 1:40, indicating, by the following song lyrics "joy." Fascinating, considering the cirmcumstances. And then, if you go back a bit, Andy only blows it once, indicating sorrow.... Considering the care put into the writing of this show, I cannot for a moment believe any of this was just coincidence.
@@johnreeves6286 My favourite ghost story, especially the 1968 TV translation , staring the late GREAT, Michael Hordern. It triggered the ''Ghost Story For Christmas'' annual treat, for several years. Always shown last thing, on Boxing night, when the family had gone to bed. I watched it alone, ( from behind the sofa).
This blew my mind the first time I saw it, you just don't expect it. So beautifully shot. Mackenzie Crooks is a huge talent, it's good he's finally getting the recognition he deserves.
I agree but he never filled his hole in when he found the whistle lol !!
Same here; at the end of the episode I was just staring at the screen trying to proccess what I just saw.
I COULDN'T SEE ANY HOLE OR SOIL DISTURBANCE AS THEY WALKED AWAY, IT WAS TINY AND SHALLOW ANYWAY---A BIT LIKE YOURSELF.
He's been a terrific character actor for over a decade. He was fantastic in POTC and Game of Thrones. But yes, I'm so glad that he's finally got a terrific leading part. Love Andy and Lance!
@@MrDaiseymay nice tiny
What a sublime scene.......we come for such a short time..........enjoy our time here, what a gift life is.!
I love this especially as my daughter Tegan is the young girl
her name sounds appropriately old world.
Lovely name.
You must be proud. It's a great show.
@@MrDaiseymay it’s Welsh for “toy”
For me, this was the most magical scene on TV all year.
Totally hypnotic ending. This is the song we used to sing as kids.."One for Sorrow, two for joy etc" Absolutely wonderful and very clever -Receding tree lines and ghosts from the past. Please Mackenzie another series...!!!
It's one of my all-time favourite shows. ❤
Mackenzie Crook should be so proud of Detectorists. If he read all the comments on all the TH-cam videos he would be in tears at the joy he has given so many people.
I think he gets the vibes, coming from his fans
@@MrDaiseymayI hope he does! I want him to know!
Very different to his character in the office
As a Detectorist I loved every minute of every episode, however, this particular bit really put the hairs up on the back of my neck and shiver down my spine, we all imagine sometimes how what we find got there and who put/lost it there in the first place, this truly is a wonderful depiction of this, beautifully done.
Tears prick my eyes whenever the song starts. So moving.
I absolutely bloody love the Detectorists.
YES!
The subtleties that run through this entire show just keep coming,the more times you watch it the more it reveals,it really is the gift that keeps on giving.
Yes! I gather so much in the re-watching. It’s an unbelievably well -structured (written, acted!) show! ❤
this is so hauntingly beautiful there are no words.
well hauntingly is quite apt
EVERY YEAR, WE HAVE, SINCE THIS TV PROG, HAD BIG GROUPS OF MAGPIES IN OUR GARDENS, BACK AND FRONT. THEY KNOW NO FEAR OF US HUMANS , TO A POINT.
It catches exactly the feeling, the atmosphere and the magic of metal detecting. Epic. Funny thing: as soon as he put the whistle to his mouth I said: "and in that moment you think when and who was the last one using it." That s what comes to my mind every time I dig up something.
Finally a TV programme about man connecting with nature, it's been a long time coming
Best 4 minutes of TV this year . Fantastic and a wonderful song.
It's 100 times better than Unthanks 'official' video for the song!
Absolutely stunning - - - this story and this piece of film and music made me cry it's so pretty
Deveron53 Just proves that Mackenzie is a creative genius. Now he needs to make a film. He might just be England's Bergman-in-waiting.
Best 4 minutes of TV for many years, perhaps them all. Good tidings to each and every one of you. "Devil, devil, I defy thee."
@@333Eriana I have to keep going back and watching it. The drone in the background really makes a difference, sort of like a Scottish bagpipe.
When the trees shrink as time goes backwards... dunno, there’s just something poetic and thought provoking about it... one forgets the country landscape hasn’t always been the way it is now I guess... anyway gives me a weird primeval feeling! Love this show... 🏴
The best Serial what i see ever on television, please more from them!
Greetings from Germany
Stunning. Theater at its best. Pure genius to conceive this and share with us all, a gift of beauty, imagination, mystery.
Enjoying the gentle humour and then out of nowhere this scene comes and blows my mind.
Makes me cry. Too beautiful for this world.
Made me cry too x
This is the best show ever . I’m a Detectorist myself and he’s got to carry on with more episodes and show the world how fabulous this hobby is .i live in the location it was filmed .if it wasn’t for us spending hours and hours in the rain snow and gorgeous sunshine , none of this amazing history would never be uncovered, if this was aired on itv instead of bbc 4 it would have been more popular than it is now . I’ve just purchased all 3 series and was brilliant
Watching it is making me want to be a filthy detectorist
@@karthouw LOL.
He found that Hawker's whistle for real, after taking up detecting and obtaining permission to detect on the land where they filmed. I expect you knew that as you're a local but others might find it interesting
you live there?! It's so beautiful! Maybe you can answer my question, above?
@@Wally-H 😲
i've got the chills, so good
Love the reference to the 1968 T.V. version of 'Whistle and I'll Come to You my lad'. Sent shivers down my spine. FANTASTIC!!
oh yes---well spotted. The remake was poor though. got all those ghost stories on VID.
Magical.
Best tv show in years a real.........treasure.
As a budding filmmaker, Film&Tv student, AND occasional detectorist... I simply cannot put into words how stunning this scene is!
as a budding film maker, can you tell me if the crashing drone was cgi or two very brave actors? Looked real to me and brilliant
I'm almost certain it wasn't CGI, it looked real to me as well. TV shows which are filmed on location instead of a greenscreen box, are usually done without any CGI (unless if we're talking about a Game of Thrones-style, high-budget series, which is nothing like Detectorists).
well said
Only just discovered both the Detectorists and the Unthanks ... both Brilliant
I never tire of watching this. Simply magic !!
I use to go detecting, I always wonder how many pot of gold that I missed. When walking the fields, there's a sense of feeling that you are linking to the past, especially if you find something. You try to imagine the person who lost the artefact way back then and life was in that area.
Amazing series, this.
Beautiful. Can't help but notice the nod to M R James, too.
Quis est iste qui venit?
So magical... I'll never forget this sequence
When I was a kid in the 1980s and late 1970s, the country wacked out great TV all the time..this shows it still can..
This show is not only brilliant but it inspired me to take up detecting and the hobby is as gratifying as Lance and Andy play it out. Any time I’ve tried to describe the allure of detecting, time travel is always part of it. Big thanks to Mackenzie for a beautiful show.
Hope you don't meet Simon and Garfunkel lol 🤣
Dear producer, director and actor, please shoot a sequel to this fantastically beautiful and funny series "Detectorists"! It is the best series on television that I have ever seen, even if it was only shown on Arte with translated subtitles for German television and can be seen in the media library there until October. Perhaps it would also be dubbed linguistically by a German, I think it would be able to achieve a good success with us in Germany. Although I love the original English language version very much, because the voices and the actors are just wonderful. In all honesty, "Detectorists" is really great, please please shoot more of it, the audience will thank you! Especially now in the gloomy Corana times ,detectorits is simply a bright light in the television sky, and probably brings many people to start with this wonderful hobby. I've been looking for my detector myself since 2012, it helps me to understand nature better every day and has helped me a lot in coping with the grief of my wife who passed away too early. Please let this series live again, people will thank you.
I fully agreewith you. The whole concept has a world-wide appeal, especially in countries with a long history worth investigating, and encouraging those who it may appeal to, becoming detectorists. Europe has such a long history of occupation and re-occupation, making the chance of finding 'treasure' far more likely.
One character in the 2nd series, Daniel Donskoy lived in Germany as a young person. He speaks many languages and in this series is the man with reddish hair who's looking for the downed WWII plane. He's an good actor and musician also. I've seen him in other series, some translated from German to English. He's also very funny in Ste Maik.
I'd prefer seeing subtitles rather than a dubbed language in this series. It's the quality of their voices, lovely accents and gentleness that's so important to the whole story line.
@@susanssolinsky262Thank you for the information about the German actor. Very talented! … I agree with you totally about subtitles: It is important to hear the qualities of the original actors’ voices, and the meaning can be read in the subtitles at the same time; much preferred over dubbing!
Simply, beautiful. Such an outstanding piece of tv history.
I was late in finding Detectorists but 7 years on I can be another person to spread the word of this wonderful series. Magpie is a beautiful song, one I have now recommended our singing group adds to its repertoire. I think I’ve watched this one scene 6 times in 48 hours! Thank you for lighting up our knowledge of history.
I keep getting flocks of Magpies in my garden. I wonder if they are trying to tell me something ?
@@MrDaiseymay😮 LOL- I’ll bet they are!
Brilliant series. Funny, moving, gentle, uplifting.
Just discovered this Absolute jem of a programme !!!!! Very wonderful and life affirming!! After watching this series I don't really begrudge cost of my TV licence!!! Beautiful television!! Thankyou BBC, you can still excell, occasionally!!!
this was so hauntingly beautiful that it could only be done in england
we're all 1000 yrs old really
TV perfection, many many thanks to the makers for this heart warming and life affirming TV.
This programme can take you through every emotion in one half hour episode have you Laughing hard one minute and crying the next . Great TV more of the same Please . And just to top it off great Music .
I shall miss it so much.
stacey Bashford Sadly, the third season will be the last. But we have been left with 19 mini masterpieces that one can watch again and again without their ever becoming stale. Indeed, the cultural and internal cross references are so many and multilayered that it takes a few close watchings to pick them up. Some, perhaps, will never be noticed by those who didn't grow up in 1970s Britain. To call this a perfect example of concept, scriptwriting, and execution hardly does it justice.
IN THE 3 BOX-SET, 'SPECIAL' ADDITIONS, MACKENZIE SAID, A 4TH IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE, HE'S JUST SO BUSY , PREFER'S DIRECTING, AND GETTING ALL THE CREW AND ACTORS TOGETHER AGAIN, WILL BE DIFFICULT, BUT---HE LEFT IT OPEN.
@@DpHsHd I really really hope Mackenzie gives in and writes another series. Nick--- I miss it too...
Magical storytelling. Love Detectorists
Every time I hear that whistle I get the chills; marvellous song and performance and the programme is just a masterpiece. Thank you for sharing.
Epic scene in new series of Detectorists, top marks for production folks, just so taken with this song, fabulous!
So piercingly beautiful, this scene took my breath away. It is one of my favorite scenes in any medium.
Loved this series, watched it all over the festive season, it was the only thing that got me through it. If only there was more TV like this fewer people would complain about their license fee, I really hope that Mackenzie Crook digs deep and writes series, I am far from finished with it yet.
Love this scene, it's why we detect :)
Absolutely stunning, haunting beautiful song, from an amazing series..
Spine tingling atmospheric TV and a wonderful song, brilliant, my favourite BBC TV show for a very long time.
my favorite scene to any show or movie ever? stunning
Such a wonderfully haunting song rendered real by this amazing segment on The Detectorists. Love it!
What a beautiful song from the sisters.
I could watch this series a million times.... and then when I'd finished I'd watch them a million times over again
So---continuously ?
Great series. The mythological Green Man appears to permeate the lovely countryside on show during the series and the magpie features too.
so good to see this quietly brilliant series- the detectorists- celebrated .: funny, moving, compassionate--
Gorgeous segment from a fab series.
Love The Unthanks
Such a masterpiece of series and a powerful performance.
McKenzie, Toby and this series are pure gold.
wonderful TV, if only they would make more...best TV show in many many years. It deserves more.
Beautiful
Beautiful.
This scene always sends a shiver up my spine!
So haunting...love this series so much...x
Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up - beautiful scene with music from a wonderful group...
it did me exactly the same time when he blew the whistle lol
Blowing whistles you dig up in the countryside can be very dodgy. Just ask M R James.
I always seem to have 'something in my eye' whenever I watch this scene. Magpies. The 70s tv show called 'Magpie' had a version of this song that just does not prepare you for the emotional hammer blow that is the traditional arrangement. The lyrics get you right in the soul. This will be played at my funeral.
is it your finger?
Some of these cutscenes really got to me, really amzingly moving, daft isn't it? Nope. Brilliant and well crafted. Thanks.
Best TV show *ever* this still gives me chills...
I like the distinction between the way he uses the whistle and the way she does.
Sang this in the pub with them one Boxing Day, with all of us joining in the chorus. It was mint.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
Wonderful, simply wonderful.
Brilliant series. Totally perfect music. Mackenzie Crook; Genius.
I love the silences in this show ..
Perfect ending, with a perfect song, by the fantastic Unthanks. Wonderful recent news to hear The Detectorists is returning this Christmas. Cannot wait.
Detectorists was a such a brilliantly written series . Beatufilly observed , each character cleverly crafted and never patronising about the hobby of metal detecting . I loved it from start to finish.
This programme is beautiful, I love it! More please!!! The last episode was so lovely too... 🤩
Brilliant programme, brilliant song & outstanding series. This scene sends a shiver down my spine. Thank you. X
THAT was the idea. It is ancient land, walked on for thousands of years.
Absolutely brilliant programme and this ending was a rare tv moment of great depth. I hadn't even been aware of the programme until I saw Mackenzie interviewed by Richard Herring following which I binge watched all 3 series and hope there are more in the future.
I cant top this, Love the unthanks, music has places you can exploit these ideas TV lost the ability in the 70's, this is awesome, just the best TV, Time travel in a TR7 and a tree
What an amazing sequence this is! I love this show so much
Totally magical!! I love this little gem of a programme and The Unthanks!
Keep your eyes on the trees. Breathtaking TV. Great series so far.
when i first watched it i thought my eyes where playing up lol, spot on
magical
When the trees started to move downwards, I thought my specs were falling out of their frames.
Most Wonderful i can only hope there is a season 4,Thankyou so much.
Lovely lovely ...so glad this was made ...TY for sharing here
I started off just being delighted by the Whistle and I'll Come to You parody, then there followed the funeral and the most amazing description of archaeology. Magnificent.
if im lucky I hear the birds and I do
This is one of the lovely things about the Detectorists, it's full of quiet references
to other classics that the viewer may or may not know.
so what is "i'll come to you"?
@@newwavepop Whistle and I'll Come to You is a classic TV ghost story about a man who digs a whistle out of an ancient graveyard, but finds it summons a demonic presence to pursue him. Look it up - it's bound to be on youtube.
Stunning piece of cinematography, acting and effects combined that sets the series up. Love the music as well, just perfect. When I first saw it I back tracked as I thought seeing the trees move was playing tricks on me. If I had waited a minute, all would have been revealed.
Thanks for sharing, this always brings a tear to my eye and somehow sends a shiver down my spine the perfect ending to an outstanding bit if television...
This tune I find very moving and the choice of music throughout the series as well as great cast and locations ... It almost makes me want to move to 'Danebury' just to join the club!!
English Eccentrics All.
You're welcome Simon .. we still have DMDC fleeces available - now at bargain prices .. do you like lemonade? ;-)
ha ha ha... I think I will pass on the lemonade thank you! ;) @@Soup-Dragon1
Heard this song on this show. Greatest show ever! Song haunted me, still does.