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Old 31-01-2016, 17:44
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Lucy is on again tonight on BBC4

9.00pm - Tales From The Royal Bedchamber in which Lucy explores our interest in Royal Weddings, Births and Babies

It looks like a repeat from 2013

Plenty of opportunity for dressing up in bedtime clothing across the ages........
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Old 31-01-2016, 18:49
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Even though I've heard the story so many times now, it's still so hard to get my head around that brutally barbaric end for Nicholas and his family. I didn't know though they were actually bayoneted too until Lucy said the girls had their jewels stuffed inside their corsets which unintentionally acted as a makeshift armour.....prolonging their agony.
Goodness, it is upsetting to think about.
It sure is, it was a horrible passing.
I love Lucy's documentaries in general and I thoroughly enjoyed her Romanov series.
Absolutely fascinating. I hope she makes some more documentaries soon.
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Old 31-01-2016, 18:51
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Lucy is on again tonight on BBC4

9.00pm - Tales From The Royal Bedchamber in which Lucy explores our interest in Royal Weddings, Births and Babies

It looks like a repeat from 2013

Plenty of opportunity for dressing up in bedtime clothing across the ages........
I think that was the programme where they invited a family of Australian tourists to watch the 'Queen' getting dressed at one of the palaces, as used to happen in the past. But don't get too excited as she was well covered up.
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Old 31-01-2016, 18:54
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I'd like to join the Lucy fan club too

She is so easy and captivating to watch. I was reasonably familiar with the history of the Romanovs but was still hooked on the 3 programmes shown recently
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Old 31-01-2016, 19:58
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Is she the one with the speech defect?
Speech defect, horrible hair and bad dress sense.
Yes.

The recent Romanoff documentary was good.
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Old 31-01-2016, 20:06
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Surely a long overdue candidate for 'Dead Ringers'(along with Susanna Reid from GMB!)?
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Old 01-02-2016, 12:21
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I've really enjoyed everything Lucy has done, but I did glaze over last night. Anyone else find it not up to her usual high standard?
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Old 01-02-2016, 13:37
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I've really enjoyed everything Lucy has done, but I did glaze over last night. Anyone else find it not up to her usual high standard?
despite me bumping this thread I ended up not watching it due to cock up on the timings front........

I probably watched it first time round though...........but I don't remember it
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Old 01-02-2016, 14:04
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I've really enjoyed everything Lucy has done, but I did glaze over last night. Anyone else find it not up to her usual high standard?
I found the programme interesting enough, though its original "hook" being the expected arrival of the royal sprog (Prince George) seemed a bit tenuous. The recent Romanovs series seems a much more sophisticated production, more cinematic in its look and feel (not least the frequent shots of Lucy wandering to and fro with little or no talkover), and far less talking heads.
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Old 07-11-2016, 04:04
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Good news!!!!
The fabulous Queen Lucy will be gracing our screens again next month with a new series based on Henry VIII's six wives;
http://www.tvmole.com/2016/03/greenl...ix-wives-bbc1/
It sounds really interesting and I can't wait
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Old 07-11-2016, 06:42
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I like Lucy Worsley and accidentally caught her Radio 4 interview with Rufus Hound based on her teenage diaries (it's a series of various people reading and discussing their teenage diary entries). I really enjoyed it and as someone who mildly likes LW - or at least, she doesn't irritate me at all - it made an entertaining 30 mins. I like her even more now.

"Swottier than the normal teenager", link to the show where the episode is available for a further 27 days is here...
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Old 07-11-2016, 08:11
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I like Lucy Worsley and accidentally caught her Radio 4 interview with Rufus Hound based on her teenage diaries (it's a series of various people reading and discussing their teenage diary entries). I really enjoyed it and as someone who mildly likes LW - or at least, she doesn't irritate me at all - it made an entertaining 30 mins. I like her even more now.

"Swottier than the normal teenager", link to the show where the episode is available for a further 27 days is here...
Also caught the programme and really enjoyed it. The other people in the series have also been enjoyable too.

There's more to broadcasting than TV!
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Old 07-11-2016, 10:12
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We all know why Dan 'My dad's on TV' Snow got a job at the BBC...

Now there's someone I really can't stand but it appears that were stuck with him unfortunately!
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Old 07-11-2016, 10:33
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I like her and think she looks as if she's really dirty off-screen (in a good way), but it is a bit disconcerting in that she looks like William Hague.

Dan Snow's Filthy Cities documentary about the streets of Medieval London was excellent.
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Old 07-11-2016, 11:49
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Old 07-11-2016, 11:53
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I like her and think she looks as if she's really dirty off-screen (in a good way), but it is a bit disconcerting in that she looks like William Hague.

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Quite agree about wanting her being a dirty little minx away from her historical duties in Hampton.
I've made some slightly ott smutty comments on twitter to her and bless her she laughed along and got the humour. I wish most of the other history , science telly girls could follow in Lucy's style.
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Old 07-11-2016, 12:14
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I have to admit I was never a great viewer of history documentaries but she has turned my head. I now find myself searching I-player for a lot of history programs.

At last the BBC is using qualified people like Lucy Worsley, Kate Williams and Joann Fletcher more and more for its factual work, rather than generic presenters or actors. I have never understood why anyone would watch a documentary presented by actors like Martin Clunes or Caroline Quentin.

Dan Snow may have his problems (nepotism etc) but he does at least have a first class degree in History.

I really don't want to watch a documentary where the presenter is just reading a script written for them (rather than by them).
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Old 07-11-2016, 12:21
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At last the BBC is using qualified people like Lucy Worsley, Kate Williams and Joann Fletcher more and more for its factual work, rather than generic presenters or actors. I have never understood why anyone would watch a documentary presented by actors like Martin Clunes or Caroline Quentin.
What do you mean at last? They've always done so! And they've never used Martin Clunes or Caroline Quentin for anything. That's ITV, although only in travelogues, for which I'm pretty sure there is no qualification available.
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Old 07-11-2016, 12:47
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What do you mean at last? They've always done so! And they've never used Martin Clunes or Caroline Quentin for anything. That's ITV, although only in travelogues, for which I'm pretty sure there is no qualification available.
I was referring to BBC factual shows presented people like Dallas Campbell (just an actor) and Richard Hammond (not a problem for the BBC now).

Also there was a documentary recently about the hidden areas of Rome with Alexander Armstrong. He is a good actor and presenter but there is no reason for him to present BBC factual shows in place of a real historian.

Lucy Worsley and Alice Roberts alone are worth the license fee IMO.
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Old 07-11-2016, 12:52
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I like her and think she looks as if she's really dirty off-screen (in a good way), but it is a bit disconcerting in that she looks like William Hague.

Dan Snow's Filthy Cities documentary about the streets of Medieval London was excellent.
Quite agree about wanting her being a dirty little minx away from her historical duties in Hampton.
I've made some slightly ott smutty comments on twitter to her and bless her she laughed along and got the humour. I wish most of the other history , science telly girls could follow in Lucy's style.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the same!!
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Old 07-11-2016, 13:00
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Lucy Worsley and Alice Roberts alone are worth the license fee IMO.
I would pay to watch them mud-wrestle!
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Old 07-11-2016, 13:17
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Also there was a documentary recently about the hidden areas of Rome with Alexander Armstrong. He is a good actor and presenter but there is no reason for him to present BBC factual shows in place of a real historian.
Equally there's no reason for him not to. It didn't really require a historian's viewpoint so much as an educated man in the street going wow at the appropriate times. Had it been more legitimately a history of Rome then no doubt the appropriate historian would have been called on. In any case it clearly worked as three more have been commissioned covering Venice, Naples, and Florence.

It seems a little harsh to call Dallas Campbell just an actor. Scientists are rarely good communicators and Brian Cox can't present every science documentary on TV and radio! There is an art to translating the difficult ideas of science into non-scientific language and there has always been a place for articulate enthusiastic 'amateurs' to provide the buffer between scientist and public. The master of this art, James Burke, now considered a science history authority, was a graduate in Middle English!
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Old 07-11-2016, 13:34
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Quite agree about wanting her being a dirty little minx away from her historical duties in Hampton.
I've made some slightly ott smutty comments on twitter to her and bless her she laughed along and got the humour. I wish most of the other history , science telly girls could follow in Lucy's style.
Her Twitter can be very funny at times, she does not mind laughing at herself.
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Old 07-11-2016, 13:46
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I was referring to BBC factual shows presented people like Dallas Campbell (just an actor) and Richard Hammond (not a problem for the BBC now).

Also there was a documentary recently about the hidden areas of Rome with Alexander Armstrong. He is a good actor and presenter but there is no reason for him to present BBC factual shows in place of a real historian.

Lucy Worsley and Alice Roberts alone are worth the license fee IMO.
There can sometimes be a bit of snobbery from the academic community when a programme is not presented by a fully paid member of their union.

A non-academic can sometimes bring out good descriptions from people they speak to who do have the knowledge and rather than one academic with a smattering of knowledge of a range of subjects, they can use a series of academics with more detailed knowledge of those subjects. Also they can sometimes ask the questions that the viewers want answers to but an academic never think of asking.

Every presenter and programme has to be judged on its own merits. A programme with a non-academic can be good and one by an academic can be poor.

I went to a talk by one academic who does quite a lot of TV work. In answer to a question he said that he spends about half the year on his TV work, I think it (along with the books) tops up his salary and he gets to places that the university might not be able to afford to send him.
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Old 07-11-2016, 14:10
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I was getting Dan Snow mixed up with the dreamy Dr Michael Scott, who needs to be on our screens more often....perhaps co-hosting with Lucy?! *swoon*
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