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Offline Pastis

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Domesday
« on: August 12, 2010, 04:25:49 PM »
Did anybody watch this?  Fascinating research and well presented I thought.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sj8fc/Domesday/

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Delighted to find in the Domesday Book an entry for Arkesden, Essex, one "Humfridus aurei testiculi" - Mr Humphrey Goldenbollocks.
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Re: Domesday
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2010, 05:28:47 PM »
Yes indeed although I felt the young man presenting the programme was doing a rather poor impersonation of David Starkey both in voice and mannerism ~ I found this rather distracting.
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Re: Domesday
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2010, 08:20:15 PM »
I'd cut him some slack. He's in his 40's I guess; his first TV presentation that I'm aware of and probably still trying to find his style. David Starkey's 65, Attenborough's 84! Big names to cut it alongside ... thank God he's not in the mould of the Roy Strong camp (pun intended).
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