I'm ashamed to say that as well as the narrator, I am also the producer, filmer and writer. Sorry to have disappointed you

Hi. I'm not actually religious so I have no vested interest in promoting one church doctrine over another. The term 'Anglo-Saxon' here is used to denote the church as it existed in it's chronological setting, as opposed to any religious denomination (i.e. 'the Anglo-Saxon period'). I fear you've misinterpreted this as some form of religious quasi-propaganda. I'm just trying to offer a summary of a piece of my local history.

@@faithfulhistory my friend i think the mistake you are making is dishonest that is my point. You have deleted history and removed the context. I believe you may not have meant to but you did. There can only be two reasons for this, either malice or ignorance.

​@@oswaldomaldonado1051 I think what you're saying is that I've distorted the picture by omitting the wider context of it's creation? I don't think omission is equitable to dishonesty. I had a framework for what I wanted to explore in the film and it didn't include the context of why the See was created. It wasn't a deliberate attempt to distort anything as you have insinuated. Interestingly On another comment elsewhere someone argued that the only negative they saw in the film was that I hadn't mentioned the Orthodoxy of the Bishops at this time. I'm assuming this is part of some wider academic debate about the English church's denomination? For my own part I'm a local historian and it's immaterial to me whether the first Bishops of Worcester were Catholic, Orthodox or belonged to Westborough Baptist church. I'm coming at this from a secular perspective and ultimately I wrote what I found to be of interest.

@@faithfulhistory Lying by omission is when a person leaves out important information or fails to correct a pre-existing misconception in order to hide the truth from others. Lies of omission are distinct from lies of commission which involve telling someone something that simply isn’t true. You should think about your actions what you did and test it to see if it is reasonable. For example if you had created a documentary about anglo saxon mosques and never mentioned Islam the obvious omission would be glaring. The viewer would ask a simple question why would someone spend 30 minutes talking about mosques and imams and never use the words islam or muslim? Why would they do that? Or pick any subject and ask yourself what a reasonable person would say about a glaring omission of that nature? They would call your integrity into question. A reasonable person would assume you are not objective. A professional secular objective historian can describe religious buildings in their context without omitting the religion. The purpose of the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Greece was to house a massive statue of Athena Parthenos made from ivory, silver and gold. Imagine doing a 30 minite documentary on the Parthenon and never mentioning the Cult of Athena. The omission would be obvious and the bias would be apparent. The lack of objectivity would betray a lack of intellectual integrity.

Tips for improvement? Sounds okay to me?

I'll take that all day long!

Just finished watching it. Narrator was Joe Tierney.

Thanks Tim! Yeah I did and I had to pay for a license to reproduce them too. Annoyingly their website lists fairly reasonably prices per page, but when I enquired I found they recently outsourced this function to a third party known as Bridgeman images. Lovely staff and people but I'll be honest I paid way more than I should have for the images!

The capitals and bases of the columns in the cafe are more dependably dated because of their distinctive appearance....also a great excuse to sit and eat cake staring at them!

Thanks so much Saugot! Really encouraging to hear ^_^

They may be citizens, but they will never be English.

@@GazzaBoo The next steps to this situation is rack and ruin, for the newbies will not work for "old History." Peace be unto you.

@@GazzaBoo They will never be British either!

look to the broken abbeys to see how Worcester will look in 200 years. If they succeed in establishing the caliphate then these beacons of Christianity will be in line for demolition. Look at what they did every where else.

1956 was a great year. Or so my mum led me to believe.

I wouldn't know where to start, but I can tell you it takes approximately £3,500 per day to run (this includes the cost of employing a team of stone masons who are located on site permanently....there's always some bit of masonry wants repairing!)

Kind words indeed! Glad you enjoyed ^_^

You're very welcome!

Fantastic story! Glad you enjoyed it

He was a real titan of history! Thanks for the info I haven't actually looked too much at any business he had with King William

William the Bastards claim on the English throne was tenuous at best.

I would strongly contest the claim the Harold Godwinson was a "usurper". The Godwins were long established as one of the most powerful families in Anglo-Saxon England. I accept that with my surname, I may be thought to be biased....

Nope 'tis my voice!

@@faithfulhistory Oh. You have a nice accent. 😇 The British pronunciation of Sim isn't pronounced as in Simon, it is as in sim card, and leverage is as in lee. 😇

@@stephengraham5099 high praise indeed! I shall heed your sage advice on future films 😀

Hi Richard thanks for your kind words! Always gratifying to see people enjoying my work - even thousands of miles away!

Many thanks for your kind words! I'm hoping to re-release it soon with some decent recordings of his music provided by the English Symphony Orchestra. I'll probably plug it a lot more to musical groups etc then

We do round these parts mate

It's still made there.

You sentimental boob, you!

Thanks for your considered reply I will take it as a yes. - After further research I believe Elgar may have holidayed in Southerndown in South Wales - Serendipitously I once wrote a song about that very place - You can hear it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/npqWkIWuisaroNE

Thanks Roger. Alas, I needed to record using an original 1927 gramophone and records as they were the only sources of his music that would not have required me to shell out many thousands of pounds in licensing fees. You're not the first person to comment on this though so I will be giving it some thought

@@faithfulhistory thanks for your reply, I understand your situation.

Hey Roger - not sure if you'll read this but I wanted to let you know that, thanks to your feedback I spurred myself to get in touch with some contacts and my friends at the English Symphony Orchestra have agreed to provide me with all of the Elgar music I need, license free! So I'll be re-editing a new version soon and uploading to the channel.

@@faithfulhistory thanks for the reply. I’m glad to hear that my (well meant) comment has yielded fruit for you, I look forward to seeing/hearing the new version. I am a Worcester boy but have spent the last fifty years in Oz. My sister lives not far from Elgar’s birthplace and whenever I’m back in Worcester I always have a tramp over his (and my) beloved Malvern Hills listening to his beautiful music on the iPod.

I rather like the scratchy old music. It's his music as he would have heard it when played on records at home.

Thanks Wayne!

Thanks!