Ray’s History Radio & TV Picks. 2015. No.04

[Ray Boyles]

Saints & Sinners: Britain’s Millennium of Monasteries. 1 of 4.
BBC 4: Thu 19 Feb 2015, 21.00.
In this new series Dr Janina Ramirez explores how monasteries evolved from a cult of extreme isolation and self-deprivation into powerhouses of Anglo-Saxon art, industry and learning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052zxhm

Roman Britain: a Timewatch Guide.
BBC 4: Thu 19 Feb 2015, 22.00
Using 50 years of BBC history archive film, Dr Alice Roberts explores how our views and understanding of Roman Britain have changed and evolved over the decades
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052vcbg

Digging for Britain. 3 of 4.
BBC 4: Thu 19 Feb 2015, 23.00
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014’s most outstanding archaeology from the north of Britain, including a 5,000-year-old temple in Orkney.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b052vcbd/digging-for-britain-series-3-3-north

The Great War: The People’s Story. 1 of 4.
ITV: Thu 19 Feb 2015, 22.55
This is a repeat of a 2014 dramatised documentary series which uses the original diaries, letters, and memoirs of the men and women who were caught up in the conflict. Details from original programme release:
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week33/great-war-peoples-story

The Great War: Please God, Send Us Victory. 9 of 26
BBC 4: Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19.00. 1964 series continues.
1915 – The Dardanelles & Gallipoli. The allies recognise stalemate in the trench lines on the Western Front and looks elsewhere for victory. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f79tm

The American Revolution.
Discovery Channel, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 20.00
New series part 2: American independence seems like a lost cause a George Washington’s Continental army teeters on the brink of defeat.
http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/american-revolution/

Digging for Ireland. New
BBC 4: Tue 24 Feb 2015, 20.00
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present the highlights from this year’s archaeology in Ireland. It includes
the hunt for the location of the Battle of Ford of the Biscuits from the Elizabethan Nine Years’ plus amazing plunder from the Spanish Armada.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021j8bm

Timeshift: The Nation’s Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail
BBC 4: Tue 24 Feb 2015, 21.00
Timeshift revisits Britain’s railways during the era of nationalisation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053pxdr

Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power. 1 of 3
BBC 4: Wed 25 Feb 2015, 20.00.
In this new series, historian Amanda Vickery explores why, in the early 20th century, thousands of British women joined a violent militant organisation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0544j0j

Wolf Hall: Masters of Phantoms. 6 of 6
BBC Two: Wed 25 Feb 2015, 21.00
After uncovering treasonable offences, Cromwell exacts the ultimate revenge.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0547rvc

Wolf Hall: the Inside Story.
BBC 4: Wed 25 Feb 2015, 22.00
Mark Rylance, Hilary Mantel and director Peter Kosminsky join Kirsty Wark to review the historical drama series.

Explorers of the Nile.
BBC Radio 4 Extra. Mon Feb 23 to Fri 27 Feb 2015. 14.45pm
Repeat of previously broadcast Book of The Week in five 15minute parts. Tim Jeal deploys “fascinating new research to provide a vivid tableau of the unmapped ‘Dark Continent’, its jungle deprivations, and the courage as well as malicious tactics of the explorers”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014f9pz

PODCASTS

The Essay: The Fall and Rise of the British Castle.
Really good Radio 3 programmes, with five different speakers & approaches. 15min each. iPlayer here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050s1lp/episodes/player
Podcasts here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/essay

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