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Must all history programming be 'relevant'?

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets; Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

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When it comes to history programming, television’s loss is increasingly audio’s gain. People moan to me most weeks over the lack of really good, rigorous, eye-opening documentaries on the screen, and I can only nod along in agreement. Oh for a Kenneth Clark-style lecture! More Michael Wood! There’s an especially strong appetite for the adventurous commissions of the 1990s and 2000s.

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