Waterloo

[anotheoldgit]

Does anyone know if BBC have screened anything to do with the 200years anniversary of Waterloo?

If they have I have missed it, I would have thought that they would have filmed the re-enactment in Belgium, it is this sort of thing that the BBC do so well.

They could have at least screened the film Waterloo, with Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington, and Rod Steiger as Napoleon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oLflPilcMc

[daveygh]

this is on next saturday -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060ppfq

[Mrsspagnoli57]

There has been an excellent three part documentary by Andrew Roberts called 'Napoleon' which ends this Wednesday. Though about Napoleon, it has been very interesting and this weeks final episode centres around Waterloo and his defeat. The history channel have also shown the first of a two parter with Sean Bean revisiting old correspondence from actual soldiers involver, plus looking at the guns, battlefield, tactics etc-the final part is tomorrow night at 10pm. I think some of the satellite history channels have done documentaries as well. Personally, I have enjoyed the Napoleon documentary. Its all very much a refreshing change to have history programmes about something other than the Tudors and the two Worls Wars (despite their obvious importance)There are lots of realy important and interesting history out there that does not get a look in.

[Svejk]

On the radio the BBC have been mourning the defeat of Napoleon at the hands of the Prussians. (The British had little to do with it, natch. And anyway, all the British troops were Irish)

[anotheoldgit]

Thanks for your replies, but still a poor show by the BBC.

Regarding the programme next Saturday, on the BBC News Channel, this made me laugh:

/// After the previous week's big anniversary commemorations and re-enactment in Belgium, ///

Once again what "big anniversary commemorations" BBC?

[Colmc54]

With increasing incredulity I watched the first episode of BBC's three part series concerning Napolean. I was in the company of a historian at the time.

The BBC wants editorially to be pro-Europe and pro- Socialists like Hollande (not to mention Tsipras) so it carefully selected a 'historian' who clearly had some kind of homo-erotic boyhood crush on the French dictator to do their bidding.

Terrible, shocking and repulsive to us watching it in the hope that their would be some kind of objectivity.

But then the BBC does what it does because of the unique way it is funded.

I thought history and science were converging. At least in terms of the 'popularising' of both and their manipulation by those doing the popularising it would seem I am sadly correct.