Ray’s History Radio & TV Picks. No.38.

[Ray Boyles]

This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son – Agincourt, England and France
BBC Radio 3: Sun 25 Oct 2015, 18.45 – 19.30.
Sunday Feature Agincourt special. Exactly 600 years after that fateful St Crispin’s Day novelist Adam Thorpe visits Azincourt, with Anne Curry, the leading authority on the battle, to find out what really happened there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06k9f2l

Henry V
BBC Radio 3: Sun 25 Oct 2015, 00.00 – 00.30.
To continue marking the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, a selection from William Walton’s film music for “Henry V”, played by the RTE Concert Orchestra. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06khrk5

All Fair in War: a History of Military Deception
BBC Radio 4: Mon 26 to Fri 30 Oct 2015, Daily 13.45 – 14.00.
Historian and writer Ben Macintyre starts his 5-part focus on bluff and guile in battle with a look at the original strategists’ bible, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Other topics include the Trojan Horse, espionage & camouflage:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kbdx5
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06n5qvj/episodes/guide

Drama: Tommies
BBC Radio 4: Wed 28 Oct 2015, 14.15 – 15.00. 2 / 4: 28 October 1915.
Today’s story is set in neutral Holland. Robert de Tullio finds himself Tasked to complete a sensitive diplomatic mission. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kdyqg

The Stuarts in Exile
BBC Four: Tue 27 Oct 2015, 21.00 – 21.00. 1 / 2
In this two-part 300th-anniversary special, Dr Clare Jackson tells the story of 1715 and sheds new light on the political, military and cultural threat the Jacobites posed to the embryonic British state.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bflr4

Restoring Britain’s Landmarks
Channel 4: Wed 28 Oct 2015, 20.00 – 21.00. Episode 3.
This episode includes the complex restoration of the famous lighthouse on Lundy Island: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/restoring-britains-landmarks

Face of Britain by Simon Schama
BBC Two: Wed 28 Oct 2015, 21.00 – 21.00. 5 / 5: The Face in the Mirror
Simon Schama explores the complex motivations behind some of our most intriguing self-portraits. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06mydh1

In Our Time: The Empire of Mali
BBC Radio 4, Thu 29 Oct 2015, 9.00 – 9.45.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Empire of Mali which flourished from 1200 to 1600. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kgggv

The Last Kingdom
BBC Two: Thu 29 Oct 2015, 21.00 – 21.00. 2 /8
After the massacre of his Danish family, Uhtred finds himself in dangerous limbo – neither Saxon nor Dane. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06mzhnf

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