Anyone been watching The Plantagenets on BBC2?

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Good stuff.

I know quite a bit about them as im into history (thanks completely to Horrible Histories) so knew some stuff but theres always something new to learn.

fascinating stuff, quite graphic when hes talking about torture and how people were killed and what was dome with their bodies and stuff, but its a good programme.

hope he does the Tudors next, all Tudor progs are always about Henry 8th, itd be good to learn more about Henry 7th, and Liz 1.

he seems to find unheard of stuff.

\\final part today! cant wait!

Agincourt and Richard lll !

shame it was only a 3 parter as he pretty much skimmed over Richard lll.

No dissing Robert Bartlett people! I love his lugubrious manner.

I've really enjoyed the two I managed to catch. I love all those stomping through fields and old churches type of history programmes.

(I wonder if he ever has a sneaky read of a Philippa Gregory)

Theres a series this month sometime by the fab Lucy Worsley about the four King Georges on BBC4.

will watch out for transmission date.

Love the Georges stories too.

I somehow managed to miss the middle programme, but thorough enjoyed the ones I did see and the programme about William Marshall.
I thought the part about Richard III was nicely measured (although a bit brief!) - usually they take a good/bad stance and stick with it. He's such a divisive figure to this day and I think that's why he's still so fascinating - you can take a viewpoint either way and make the facts fit.
I read The Sunne in Splendour at an impressionable age, can you tell?

I was enjoying this until they put up the maps and France was blue. The sea should be blue!