ECW programme on BBC4 Tues 15 9pm

[westwaller]

@clivethecelt wrote: [url]Apologies to those who wasted an hour of their lives on this; only one word for this execrable excuse for "historical" programming, and I can't use it here. I didn't even manage 15 mins; next time, I'll read the blurb on the iPlayer first ... sorry.[/url]

Don't feel you have to apologise @clivethecelt, you gave us a heads up on what could have been a very interesting program and I thank you for that You only need to apologise if you commissioned the programme!!

It is a shame as there has been some really good historical stuff on BBC4 lately.

[mikeland]

No need to appologise Clive, it could have been good. Westwaller is right, it is the commissioning editor needs to grovel!

<START RANT> It is a real pity, the ECW is so neglected in terms of documentaries, and sadly when it is it is rarely understood or represented... Whilst we may have a great laugh ribbing each other on here about Round heads and woyalists (I can't help it if all Royalists are pink fairies! ) it is a shame that this kind of nonsense actually gets into the planning schedule and re-enforces the dreadful stereotypes.

There were many a dour god fearing puritan who out of conscience followed the king and likewise the Parliamentarians had a good few colorful characters in their ranks (at least until they got found out and made to wear brown and sing psalms )

As the 370th anniversary of the war is this year it would have been ideal to have had a decent documentary from the beeb. But instead they waste resources promoting z list nobodies giving us their irrelevant thoughts waffling on about a cultural devide that didn't really exist in 1640 never mind now, and have the show hosted by a genuine historian not an interior designer! <END RANT>

Time for a chocolate digestive.

[Suetonius Paullinus]

Didn't watch it yesterday but I guess I won't bother now and will delete the recording...
Oh well, I still got last episode of Game of Thrones to watch, that'll do.

Cheers

SP

[clivethecelt]

ECW has never been one period I've been really interested in, probably through ignorance rather than anything else. As I know so little about it, and being wholly disappointed by this programme, I was spurred on to do a little digging about local Civil War events, and came across this site:
http://wilkinp4.blackapplehost.com/Hist ... vilWar.htm
Probably not of much interest to anyone outside Lancashire (specifically, NE Lancs), but I found it fascinating how many local families - often inter-related - were so divided between the two factions, even to the extent (as mikeland was saying) that some Protestants were Royalist and v.v.