Late contributor to this thread, basically because I have to watch each programme three times to extract all the rich juices from the presentation - it really is a joy to watch and listen to such an authoritative and informative series of programmes.
I absolutely love the cinematographic metaphor of the helicopters, motorways, rail etc - we really are walking in the footsteps of giants in our everyday lives - to our shame we don't realise it, who'd have thunk Tamworth was such a key place in our nation's history.
Special thanks to Professor Jinty Nelson, who apart from having the most fantastic name on the planet, has given such clear historical insight and done this by using the full rich linguistic variety of our PAST tenses - none of this nonsense of using the present tense (which annoys and confuses me) that so many TV historians employ - presumably on the ludicrous assumption that it makes everything 'citin'!
Missed the first episode - No longer on iPlayer. Anyone still have it recorded on hard-drive/sky+ and could transfer/let me have copy on DVD?
I'd be very grateful and would pay any expenses/costs etc
Let me know via here or PM?
Thanks in advance
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I was typing from memory when I wrote it, having just read something about Alfred the Great so I had Wessex on the mind rather than Mercia.
I absolutely love the cinematographic metaphor of the helicopters, motorways, rail etc - we really are walking in the footsteps of giants in our everyday lives - to our shame we don't realise it, who'd have thunk Tamworth was such a key place in our nation's history.
Special thanks to Professor Jinty Nelson, who apart from having the most fantastic name on the planet, has given such clear historical insight and done this by using the full rich linguistic variety of our PAST tenses - none of this nonsense of using the present tense (which annoys and confuses me) that so many TV historians employ - presumably on the ludicrous assumption that it makes everything 'citin'!
Anyone still have it recorded on hard-drive/sky+ and could transfer/let me have copy on DVD?
I'd be very grateful and would pay any expenses/costs etc
Let me know via here or PM?
Thanks in advance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L2fYvguLL0
Cheers
Does anyone know the title of the music used in the program of the women singing??