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Ray’s History Radio & TV Picks. 27.11.2014. No.17.
Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty. Channel5, Thur 27 Nov 9.00pm.
First of Dan Jones’s new 4-part TV historical docu-drama series on The Plantagenets.
http://www.channel5.com/articles/britains-bloodiest-dynasty-episode-1-previewDetails: http://about.channel5.com/node/2036
Walking Through History. England’s Last Battle: West Country.
Channel 4. Sat 29 Nov 8:00pm. From Lyme Regis to the Somerset Levels, Tony Robinson follows in the footsteps of the Duke of Monmouth’s rebel army in 1685.Tony Robinson’s World War I. Sundays at 8pm on Discovery Channel
Tony Robinson unpicks the Great War using a unique archive of 3D photographs taken in the trenches at the time. http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/tony-robinsons-world-war-I/
http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/tony-robinsons-world-war-I/tony-robinsons-world-war-1-episode-guide/Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter & Tom. BBC2. Sun 30 Nov. 7.00pm Episode 2 of 6. Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back to learn the skills of medieval castle builders. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sv5nc Episode on IPlayer until 8.0pm Sun 30. Episode 3 Tues 2 Dec.
The Songs and Shows of World War I. BBC Radio 2. Tue 2 Dec 10.00pm.
Part 1 of 5. 1914: We Don’t Want to Lose You
Music historian Russell Davies discovers how the musical stage reflected the world situation in 1914 and what the troops were whistling as they marched to war.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04q0z92Castles: Britain’s Fortified History. BBC4. Thu 4 Dec 9.00pm. Part 1 of 3.
New series. Historian Sam Willis traces the story of Britain’s castles and their unique role in our history, art and literature. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04t9h6lWar of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
Details the experiences of the poets and writers who served in the battle. The work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg and JRR Tolkien (who arrived at the Western Front with ambitions to be a poet) was informed and transformed by the battle. Uses animation, documentary accounts, surviving artefacts, battalion war diaries and the landscape itself to reconnect this literature to the events that inspired it.
First shown: BBC Two. 15 Nov 2014. 90 mins. Still available BBC IPlayer – 18 days
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04pw01r/war-of-words-soldierpoets-of-the-somme
The Somme in Seven Poems
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02b11yw/the-somme-in-seven-poems
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