Tudor Box Set Binge

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you are planning your television viewing over the holidays, especially if you are looking forward to bingeing on the best Tudor dramas and classic film depictions of the era, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb has a few personal recommendations of movies and TV series for you to re-discover this festive season.

And in the second part of the podcast, she casts an eye over the 1998 Shekhar Kapur film Elizabeth, which starred an Oscar-nominated Cate Blanchett as the eponymous monarch. It was undoubtedly dazzling to look at, but how did the film stand up as historical fact?

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0:00.0	For today's festive episode of Not Just the Tudors, I thought I'd start a new occasional
0:11.4	series that might be appropriate at this time of year when we've got a bit more time
0:16.4	to sit down and watch something, it's quite cold outside and what we really want to do
0:20.2	is snuggle on the sofa.
0:22.8	So this is called the Tudor Box Set Binge and there are two parts to this podcast.
0:29.3	In the first part I'll be talking about what are the things that you could watch if
0:32.8	you wanted your Tudor Hit over Christmas over the holidays.
0:35.8	I'm going to give little introductory reviews to the things that are out there.
0:39.9	And then I'm going to choose one that I think you should watch and give one in-depth film
0:44.7	review about what is fact, what is fiction and how fun the ride is.
0:50.7	And I promise to come back to some of those I mentioned in passing for this kind of
0:54.5	in-depth historical film review in the future.
0:58.1	I should say this is going to be a list of dramas, so films or TV series that are basically
1:03.0	fictionalised.
1:04.0	There are also some very good documentaries out there about Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
1:09.0	told, but that's not what I'm talking about today.
1:13.2	Most of these films or dramas series are available to rent, to buy or stream through places like
1:19.9	Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube, Apple TV, etc.
1:24.5	You can find out where to find them by using something like justwatch.com.
1:30.7	I'll tell you if they're elsewhere.
1:40.3	So what might you settle down to watch about the Tudors?
1:44.6	This festive season.
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