Crafting historical weapons for Wolf Hall and The Witcher

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4.3 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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From Roman catapults to medieval daggers, Tod of Tod’s Workshop has made it all. The historical weapon-maker gives a behind-the-scenes peek into making replica weapons and armour for period dramas and hit TV shows like Wolf Hall and The Witcher.

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1:13.3	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine,
1:17.7	Britain's Best Selling History Magazine.
1:27.7	I'm Ellie Corpon. From instructing the acts of wolf haul on the authentic way to shoot their
1:33.1	bows and arrows, to crafting swords for historical fantasy shows like The Witcher.
1:38.4	Leo Todaskeini, better known as Todd of Todd's workshop, has done it all.
1:43.4	Our subredator, Rianne and Davies, caught up with him to take him behind the scenes peak
1:48.9	at creating replica historical weapons for film and TV.
1:52.2	So, Todd, to start us off with, can you just tell us what it is that you do in a nutshell?
1:58.1	I am, for one of a better term, a medieval craftsman in the sense that a lot of people would know
2:05.6	what a cutler is. So a cutler is somebody who makes swords and knives and things.
2:09.0	But actually I do a whole breadth of things. So I make swords, knives, crossbows, sword scabbers,
2:16.2	dress accessories, so that be things like belts and purses and stuff. So there's not really
2:21.2	a word that covers what I do. And certainly not a historical word, you know, like
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