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'Britannia'
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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...-tv-series

My mother showed me the entry for this programme in the ''Television Times'', and I came upon this article. I am glad no-one, least of all the writer, seems to be taking this drivel seriously, but it abuses historical names and events (poor Aulus Plautius looks like a third-rate barbarian, the Celts are beneath contempt) and should be, as with most films and television productions, very clearly branded as rot.

Why bother when it is so plainly ludicrous? I fear, however, that historical ignorance is, unlike the schoolmaster, abroad in the land -- I distinctly remember hearing from my dear mother that not one of her present colleagues under the age of forty (she is sixty-one), in a respectable nursing-home, and well versed in the materia medica, recognised the date 1066 when chosen as the door-password. All the ladies of her age knew a good deal about the Conquest. It really is terribly sad.
Patrick J. Gray

'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''

From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
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'Britannia' - by Clavdivs - 01-15-2018, 12:56 AM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Nathan Ross - 01-15-2018, 01:04 PM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Clavdivs - 01-15-2018, 05:47 PM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Justin I - 03-02-2018, 04:26 AM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Crispianus - 03-02-2018, 10:09 AM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Robert Vermaat - 03-02-2018, 11:06 AM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Graham Sumner - 03-10-2018, 12:24 PM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Renatus - 03-10-2018, 06:29 PM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Justin Swanton - 03-10-2018, 04:04 PM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Gunthamund Hasding - 03-11-2018, 08:26 PM
RE: 'Britannia' - by Crispianus - 03-12-2018, 02:31 PM

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