Category Archives: General TV
A Very British Romance
We have a new series coming up for you on the history of romantic fiction – A Very British Romance is starting on Thursday October 8th, 9pm on BBC Four. What could be more natural than romance, finding the perfect partner and falling in love? In fact every ingredient in this scenario, so beloved of
Continue ReadingLucy Worsley’s Reins of Power
Ok this is possibly the most bonkers programme you’ll see this year … I learned to perform the seventeenth century art of horse-dancing, as practiced by Duke of Newcastle in his Riding House at Bolsover Castle, one of England’s most curious buildings, and also the topic of my PhD thesis. There are more pictures here,
Continue ReadingHow I’ve been getting on, on my high horse
One night, not too long ago, I was walking home from work when I got a phone call. It was the Daily Mail. ‘We have a question for you,’ the voice said. ‘Our readers really want a historian’s professional view, if you’d be so kind.’ ‘Okay,’ I said cautiously, ‘What is it?’ ‘Good!’ my interlocutor
Continue ReadingA re-post, on royal bedrooms of the past…
In honour of ‘Tales from the Royal Bedchamber’ being shown on PBS in America at the moment (you can also watch it through their website here) I’m re-posting an article from a couple of years ago, about royal beds… Rife through any archive of note and, should it contain ambassadors’ letters and courtiers’ memoirs, you’ll often
Continue ReadingAnother dancing article, in which Len Goodman calls me a sausage…
‘Come on Luce, me old sausage’, Len said, as I sat trembling in my dressing room, ‘let’s get dancing!’ Len Goodman is better known as ‘Head Judge Len’ from the BBC’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. But we weren’t on the ‘Strictly’ set; we were backstage at a West End nightclub. And I wasn’t at all keen
Continue ReadingOur new BBC4 series – on the history of dancing
It’s an article for you from today’s Daily Mail, written by the excellent Mary Greene… Gatsby and Daisy? No, it’s Lucy and Len, toes tapping, knees waggling, arms flapping. Everybody’s doing the Charleston today, including Len Goodman and Dr Lucy Worsley, unlikely partners in Dancing Cheek To Cheek, BBC4’s new history of British dance crazes
Continue ReadingNew TV series on the history of dancing – some behind-the-scenes pictures for you
This week our new BBC Four series on dancing -‘Cheek to Cheek, An Intimate History of Dance’ – was officially announced at the Edinburgh Festival, and you can read the press release here. They also released a picture taken during the day we danced the Charleston at the Cafe de Paris in Leicester Square. What
Continue Reading‘Written and presented by …’
One question I’m often asked after giving a talk is ‘how do you research/write your history television programmes?’ Well, the answer is that I don’t: they’re a massive team effort, and I’m only the mouthpiece for a group of people. It’s one of the reasons that they’re fun to make, as it’s totally collaborative. That’s
Continue Reading‘Tales from the Royal Wardrobe’: some behind-the-scenes pictures
Well, I hope you’re going to enjoy ‘Tales from the Royal Wardrobe’ tonight. I think I shall be enjoying myself this evening not least because I’ll be watching with my friends from the crew with maybe a cocktail or two to hand. I have here for you some behind-the-scenes photos from when we were making
Continue Reading‘New Worlds’: brand-new C17th historical drama on tonight
The new Channel Four drama ‘New Worlds’ begins tonight, and you can watch the trailer here. I was amused to discover that the cast of young actors were made to read my book Cavalier for background about the seventeenth century. As one of them, Jamie Dornan, has gone on to be cast as Christian Grey
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