Jubilee weekend at last. You’ll have to excuse my slight fatigue with the topic because (probably unlike you) I’ve been talking about at and planning for it at work for at least the last three years.
Next week will be our magnificent conference on the monarchy at Kensington Palace. It’s exciting to think that even now historians are setting out from all corners of the globe to come to join us.
Meanwhile, do listen to my Radio 3 programme tomorrow, 3-5pm, which has music from Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee of 1897, bits of 1952, and bits of Elizabeth I as well for good measure. It’s in the series called ‘Saturday Classics’.
On Sunday I shall pop up on ‘Songs of Praise’, 12.30, BBC1, with Aled Jones, talking about the royal connections of Greenwich – they’re singing from the chapel of the Royal Naval College.
And on Monday I’ll be talking about female monarchs sometime after ten on Radio 4’s ‘The World Tonight’.
But what I really want you to do this long weekend is to watch the final episode – the ‘heroines’ – of ‘Harlots, Housewives and Heroines’, on Tuesday at 9pm on BBC4! Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.
I’ve much enjoyed ‘Harlots, Housewives and Heroines’and the way you can make understandable and interesting things I have for long associated with drearey history lessons. Thank you. By the way, in the mid 1990′s I visited Hampton Court on a very warm Summer’s day. The crowds were quite large, but I found myself alone in the cellars “inhaling” the scent of wine and enjoying the relatively cool air, when I was enveloped in an invisible “shroud” of much colder air and felt I was being prodded between my shoulder blades to move forward, which I did quickly. Could this have been my imagination? I guess it was, but I was certainly “spooked”. I wonder if others have experienced such feelings? John Dixon Newcastle upon Tyne.
Looking forward to your Diamond Jubilee Lucy, you too will become an enduring national institution, like HM. Unfortunately, I’ll be watching it from another place:) Have a great weekend and enjoy your richly deserved success. Your programmes have brightened up a mostly dull schedule (ballet on SkyArts being the exception)
Fantastic program Lucy, I especially took pleasure in how you made the old historians blush. To me you invigorate and elaborate what is just a breath past. You are a whisper of history, a sharp but cheeky poke in the eye to People who wish to make facts forgettable. I wait with…………. Anticipation for the multitude of inperation and interest you will no doubt provide. X (yes that was a kiss)
lol, your on radio 3 now, and to think I have not been reading your blog, tut tut
sure your not stalking me ?
Up with lucy educating and enriching the life of the public, a very ruskin thing to do !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgorYqHlR6Y