Ray’s History Radio & TV Picks. No.2016/01

[Ray Boyles]

My apologies that I could not get this to you yesterday. However I suspect that most people will have noticed that Sunday evening TV is pretty good for a while!

Ray’s History Radio & TV Picks. No.2016/01 3 Jan 2016.

Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
ITV: Sun 3 Jan 2016, 19.00 – 20.00. 1 / 12
New fantasy drama, not a retelling of the Anglo-Saxon poem! Beowulf returns to Heorot to say goodbye to its leader and his former guardian. http://www.itv.com/hub/beowulf-return-to-the-shieldlands/2a2759a0001

War & Peace
BBC One: Sun 03 Jan 2016, 21.00 – 22.00. 1 / 6
This new drama series is based on Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel. Napoleon Bonaparte’s French army has invaded Austria, drawing Russia into the war against him. Almost everyone in aristocratic Russian society is rattled….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039wd0f

Deutschland 83
Channel 4: Sun 03 Jan 2016, 21.00 – 22.00. 1 / 8: Quantum Jump.
This German drama series set in the 1980s follows Martin Rauch as the 24-year-old East German native who is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi Foreign Service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/deutschland-83/videos/all/s1-ep1-credible-candidate

Immortal Egypt with Joann Fletcher
BBC 2: Mon 4 Jan 2016, 21.00 – 22.00. 1 / 4: The Road to the Pyramids.
In this first episode, Professor Joann Fletcher goes in search of the building blocks of Egypt and finds out what made ancient Egypt the incredible civilisation that it was. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vpc9y

Victorian Bakers
BBC 2: Tue 5 Jan 2016, 20.00 – 21.00. 1 / 3:
Four modern bakers bake their way through the era that gave us modern baking as we know it – the reign of Queen Victoria. The journey begins in 1837, when bread was the mainstay of most diets and bakers were at the heart of every community. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vn7sq

Tumanbay
BBC Radio 4: Wed Jan 2016, 14.15 – 15.00. 6 / 10.
With Tumanbay in chaos after the murder of a highly placed individual, Heaven and her slave companion find themselves prisoners of a nomadic tribe in the desert. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ts76x

The Story of Scottish Art
BBC 4: Wed 6 Jan 2016, 20.00 – 21.00. 1 / 4:
Artist Lachan Goudie celebrates how Scottish art has punched above its weight for 5,000 years. The first episodes explores everything from rock markings at Kilmartin Glen to the renaissance under the early Start kings and the Reformation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06h7xsm

Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley
BBC 4: Wed 6 Jan 2016, 21.00 – 22.00. 1 / 3: Reinventing Russia
In this first episode, Lucy investigates the beginning of the Romanovs’ 300-year reign in Russia and then charts the story of Peter the Great, the ruthless and ambitious tsar who was determined to modernise Russia at the end of the 17th century. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vm9qp

Britain’s Bloody Crown
Channel 5: Thu 7 Jan 2016, 20.00 – 21.00. 1 / 4:
Dan Jones’s new four-part series is based on his acclaimed book, ‘The Hollow Crown’, which looks at the Wars of the Roses. He provides a panoramic sweep through English History from the marriage of Henry V in 1420 to the death of Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, in 1541.

Jericho
ITV: Thu 7 Jan 2016, 21.00 – 22.00. 1 / 8:
Set in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, this new drams series is set in the shantytown of Jericho, home to a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they’ve been brought together to build.
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-commissions-new-eight-part-drama-series-jericho

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