A PROVISIONAL airing date has been revealed for a special television segment, filmed on the Isle of Wight, set to feature on BBC’s The One Show.

UPDATE: The segment has been brought forward a week, to tomorrow (Friday, August 23).

In July of this year, the County Press got a sneak peek at what was being filmed on our shores; an archaeological investigation at Afton Down – the Isle of Wight Festival’s former site.

The project was filmed for BBC's One Show by Ryde-based People Media UK, a television and film production company set up in 2021 run by Tony Steyger and Barbara Jane Mackie.

Among those involved in the project was Kelly Wetherick, 46, from Totland – a landscape archaeologist, trustee of Vectis Archaeological Trust, and curator at Dimbola Museum and Galleries.

Speaking to the County Press at the site on July 10, she said: “This year we (Dimbola) have an outreach exhibition for Experience 25, which is 25 years of Isle of Wight Festivals, one of which took place here (Afton Down) in 1970.

“We were approached by the BBC to ask if we wanted to be involved in a short film on the archaeology of the site.

“I said absolutely and put a rabble together.”