Some classic TV for the Easter holidays:
A reminder of how British TV "used to do it" - the award winning multi - episode drama produced by ITV back in 1978:
Thanks to the "Sphinx History Channel", all seven (50 minutes) episodes of the 1978 mini series are available on You Tube AT THIS LINK HERE, Screenplay by the incredible Simon Raven, author of the "Alms for Oblivion" series, and with a stellar English cast of character actors, headed up by (and thoroughly enjoying hamming it up as) Edward Fox in the role of Edward VIII. Keep an eye out for Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Mary, Cherie Lunghi as Lady Thelma Furness, Nigel Hawthorne as Walter Monckton, Patricia Hodge as the fragrant Lady Diana Cooper and (released from Doctor Who duties) Patrick Troughton as Clement Attlee !!
Note/Trigger Warning: VBCW readers of a sensitive disposition are warned that this TV series is clearly a work of fiction, rather than a documentary based on real events : unbelievably, Edward VIII abdicates the Throne in order to marry Mrs Simpson, rather than - as of course we all know - taking up arms in the Very British Civil War.
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