For most Roman archaeologists, it would be a difficult to choose between excavating on Hadrian's Wall, or at a large sanctuary site in Romania, or conduct laser scanning in Pompeii, or discover the childhood home of Marcus Aurelius under the Lateran in Rome (!?). But for Ian Haynes, all these projects are going on at the same time!

Ian talks to David about some of these projects, why archaeology is a team sport, keeping up with - but not getting carried away by - new technology in archaeology, catching malaria in the Amazon, travelling the Silk Road, and how a picture he saw during a wet-break time at school when he was 10 put him on the path to archaeology.

Ian Haynes is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Newcastle

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