Tagged with: History
Posts (61)
Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: An underwater battlefield
Mary Beard
Classicist
How a helmet in Palermo got Mary excited about Rome's military past
Busting myths and unearthing secrets: The real people of Pompeii
Mary Beard
Classicist
From what they were baking when the volcano erupted to how they spent their free time, Mary Beard discovers how the people of Pompeii really lived.
Wolf Hall: Why I was lost in admiration for Anne Boleyn
Peter Kosminsky
Director
Director Peter Kosminsky on why we need more people like Hilary Mantel and how Anne Boleyn was a proto-feminist.
You can’t run or hide: Jessica Hynes on her suffragette comedy
Jessica Hynes
Actress
Jessica Hynes on making a retro live studio comedy, how it's completely different from Spaced and the Edwardian vibrating chair she almost included in the second series of Up The Women.
Great War Diaries: Turning diaries into compelling drama
Jan Peter
Director and Screenwriter
'I loved the idea of showing history as a kind of chaos or confusion.’ Director and screenwriter Jan Peter tells how the diaries of ordinary people helped to bring World War One to life, for BBC Two's factual drama series Great War Diaries.
Art Of China: My journey of discovery
Andrew Graham-Dixon
Presenter
'I have been to some wonderful and fascinating places. But never anywhere quite as dramatic and surprising as China.' Presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon on his journey through China for a three part BBC Four doucmentary.
Jamaica Inn: Seeing sense in Aunt Patience's madness
Joanne Whalley
Actress
Actress Joanne Whalley on how Emma Frosts' script for BBC One's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel 'brought out the understanding that we all have now: abuse can be a cycle that you can’t break easily.'
The Crimson Field: Recreating a WW1 army hospital
Cristina Casali
Production Designer
'Entrances and exits had been cut into the canvas wherever necessary.' Production designer Cristina Casali shares design sketches and contruction photos from the set of the army hospital in BBC One's World War One period drama.
I Was There: The Great War Interviews
Detlef Siebert
Director
'I wanted to make a film about individual responses to extreme situations' - The director on using previously unseen interviews that never made it to air in the BBC’s landmark 1964 Great War series.
37 Days: Changing my perspective of WWI
Mark Hayhurst
Writer and Producer
'I traced every conference, every telephone call, private letter and telegram swirling around Europe.' How the research and the writing process revealed a new side to the First World War.
