Raiders of the Lost Ark

I watched this piece of shite on CH4 last night about some academic who'd spent years following the trail of the ark of the covenant.

90 minutes I listened to this guy witter on. He was not animated and most definitely not TV friendly. The guy had spent his whole life with his head in a book looking for the gold casket containing the 10 commandments given to Moses by God.

When he didn't find it in a book he went to look for it in a bunch of hot countries.

Anyway, the long and short of it is, he found it. Well sort of. What he actually found was this crappy old wooden bowl. When it was carbon dated it was 600 yrs old. Now I'm no historian, but I reckon Moses snuffed it a few years before the 14th century, so I don't reckon it was the actual ark. And the guys answer - they broke the original gold one, so they made this (piece of shite - I put that bit in) to replace it. Yeah, right.

And where is this ark Mk II? Er, well it's in Zimbabwe. Genius! Robert Mugabae can't even find a bunch of ballot papers cast a couple of weeks ago, so how he's going to remember where he put some dusty old bowl I do not know.

Academics, if you must make TV programmes, please ensure they're only shown on BBC2 at 4am like the Open University do.