Oliver’s Army
‘HENRY Ford may have thought that history was bunk, but TV producers cant get enough of it at the moment with tonights documentary about Oliver Cromwell providing a backdrop to the BBCs costume drama about King Charles II.
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Following on closely, as it does, the recent drama about King Henry VIII, the Tudors and Stuarts cannot have had as much exposure for the best part of 300 years.
Christopher Eccleston narrates tonights hour-long documentary about a man who is most famous for his brilliant military success in defeating King Charles I in the English Civil War and then having the king beheaded.
What is less well-known is just how unpopular Cromwell became after the war, a religious bigot who like a 17th Century Tony Blair decided to ban just about every pleasure imaginable.
He would even have taken the crown himself had he not realised that in those circumstances his military commanders would have deserted him. King Oliver 1? It doesnt sound quite right, does it?’
Posted: 24th, November 2003 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
