(Boffo British TV drama series about the English Civil War): Anybody know a
way to put pressure on the BBC or PBS to get this out on DVD? Lots of
readers remember it being really good. Sample:
“John—I remember this series well. It was quite sympathetic to the
Royalists and (it seems to me) presented the Roundheads as hypocritical
proto nanny statists. There was a scene where one of the Roundheads rode
into a little town on horseback, proclaiming ‘I have come to set you free.’
Someone shouted back at him: ‘We *are* free. We just want to be left
alone.’ My philosophy in a nutshell.—Regards…”
And yes, I am now aware that I was until yesterday the only inhabitant of
Western Civilization who did not know that Jeremy Clyde (the actor who so
superbly played Charls I in BTSD) was one half of the 1960s singing duo Chad
and Jeremy, sort of Peter and Gordon knockoffs.