Traveller Inceptio

BBC News

“Not a little confusion as the secretive Saxon Traveller project announced that one of their researchers returned today.

“Sergeant Mike Hurley, a member of the British Special Services, has been living in 11th Century Saxon society for over a month and, after a second visit to Traveller Michael Hunter, has just returned to a hero’s welcome.

“Shipped back in time to the eleventh century by the enigmatic Transporter, Hurley is one of two highly trained researchers whose task it was to integrate into the lives of the local Saxons, a people who are ancestors to most British today.

“I spoke to Oxford University’s Professor Adrian Taylor, the academic behind this audacious programme, and he explained:

“As promised, the Saxon Traveller project has placed highly trained researchers into the society of the Saxons, the people who inhabited England one thousand years ago.”

“This has always been a time where our historical knowledge is incomplete because of the conquest of the Saxon culture by the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror in 1066.”

“Our researchers, we have two, Mike Hurley who has just returned, and Michael Hunter who is still living with the people of the Saxon village of Giolgrave, have sent an unimaginable wealth of images and data through which we are still sifting.”

“Between them the project has been a categorical and resounding success.”

“In a statement from Professor Taylor, Hurley will undergo a full physical and debrief before he will be available for media interviews.”

“This is Brian Browning of BBC News 1, live.”