LIVE STREAM: Egyptology TV couple Joann Fletcher and Stephen Buckley to unwrap career highlights

The ‘audience with’ event – which will see the couple interviewed by The Yorkshire Post and The Star’s award-winning Graham Walker – will be live streamed as a Pay-Per-View fundraiser for Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust.

It will cost just £5 to watch the special stream on Thursday, March 16, 2023, from 7pm.

BUY A TICKET: Simply Text 22TUT 5 to 70085 and a link to watch will be sent directly to your phone the day before the event.

An Audience with Prof Joann Fletcher and Dr Stephen Buckley is to be streamed by Front Row Live for Barnsley Museums in front of a live audience at the town centre’s Barnsley Six Form College.

It was moved there when the original Cooper Gallery venue sold out.

Now as the ‘audience with’ heads towards another sell-out, Barnsley Museums have announced this first ever PPV live stream, to allow more people to experience the unique and fascinating event, including fans around the globe.

It will be the finale of a programme of activities supporting Tut ‘22: The Life of Tutnkhamun, a temporary exhibition of almost 300 objects and artefacts, many on loan from Bolton Museum, celebrating the century of the discovery of the Boy King’s tomb and incredible local links.

The display looks set to be the town’s most popular ever temporary museum exhibition, attracting tens of thousands of visitors over the past six months to Experience Barnsley, inside Barnsley Town Hall. It runs until Saturday, March 18.

But the Tut ‘22 exhibition will stay open as 3D virtual tour, to be exclusively launched during the live stream, as a legacy project and educational resource, including 121 digital hotspots, providing extended information and hours of fun, with 3D objects, videos, photos, page turning e-Mags, downloadable publications, children's worksheets and more.

Barnsley born Prof Fletcher and partner Dr Buckley, who live in Scarborough and work out of University of York, will chat about their long and distinguished careers as highly respected ancient Egypt experts with millions of views on TV and social platforms.

They were part of a team of scientists who won a BAFTA for the Channel 4 documentary Mummifying Alan: Egypt’s Last Secret, which involved mummifying taxi driver Alan Billis, to replicate the ancient process, at Sheffield’s Medico-Legal Centre.

They also made headlines as part of a team which got Nesyamun, known as The Leeds Mummy, to 'speak' after more than 3,000 years using an electronic larynx attached to a 3D print of a his voice box, scanned at Leeds General Infirmary.

They will offer insights into their research, studying Tutankhamun’s dynasty and how science - combined with the latest digital technology - has helped resurrect life in Ancient Egypt in a truly remarkable way.

Prof Fletcher is much loved by fans for her enthusiastic storytelling and passion for the subject – not just educating us on ancient Egypt’s powerful sovereigns but its common, everyday people.

With her now iconic, distinctive shock red hair, dressed all in black, with a matching black umbrella to shield from the searing sun, she takes enormous pride in her Barnsley accent as she helps the world to re-discovers the pas in hit TV shows including Immortal Egypt and Ancient Egypt: Life & Death In The Valley Of The Kings.

She has published a number of books and academic articles, including several on Cleopatra, and made numerous television and radio appearances. In 2003, she claimed to have identified the mummy of Queen Nefertiti.

Archaeological chemist and mummification expert Dr Buckley, who began his journey with a Chemistry degree at the University of Sheffield, recently helped to reveal how natural ingredients were used to make a mummy and in other research how ancient Egyptians were embalming mummies 1,500 years earlier than previously thought - around 6,000 years ago.

He has been carrying out forensic tests looking for mummy remains in 19th century paintings featuring Mummy Brown paint, which include ground up remains of Egyptian mummies.

All this and more will form the a fascinating evening with the couple as well as a Q & A session, with the chance for the in person and live stream audience given the chance to ask the eminent experts about all things ancient Egypt.

Coun Robert Frost, Cabinet Spokesperson for Regeneration and Culture, said: “Tut 22: The life of Tutankhamun has been an incredibly popular exhibition, attracting visitors from across the country and even as far afield as Egypt itself .

"We are delighted to have hosted an exhibition of such outstanding quality and to have once again worked alongside the brilliant Joann Fletcher.

"Tickets for the ‘Audience with’ event have been in extremely high demand and it's fantastic that people can watch it across the globe while supporting the outstanding work of Barnsley Museums. All donations allow them to display more wonderful exhibitions such as this.”

For more information about the event visit www.experience-barnsley.com