Mary Tudor - Wilfrid Grantham - BBC Saturday Night Theatre

[@petertate8366]

Just turned up on my feed, excellent production with marvellous actors.

[@edivaughan1746]

Thank you very much for this upload

[@Poeme340]

Fantastic!

[@carolinehoward180]

This is so well done 👏👏👏👏

[@patriciamackinlay6495]

excellentx

[@petertate8366]

Broadcast 15/12 /1951.Roger Delgado as Philip of Spain !!

[@janethayes5941]

Really looking forward to this!

[@marymary5494]

Anyone else think this portrait looks Denis Waterman?

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Yes. Also an uncanny resemblance to Graham Hancock - the well known pseudo historian and intellectual con artist.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

We're the Sweeney son ....and we haven't had any dinner. !

[@mathonamoore123]

Yes, immediately! Greetings from Ireland, the 5th of May 2022. 🇮🇪❤️💕

[@Teapot333]

Definitely

[@beebee8018]

😂😂😂😂😂 Yes!

[@colinglass7929]

Just because its not modern doesnt mean its no good. Good play this The one who played raynar reminds me a bit of the English film actor Maurice Denham both voices sound familiar the one who was in the The actor was in the film The Night of the Demon

[@elrjames7799]

@Colin Glass. Yes: Maurice Denham appeared as Professor Harrington.

[@daviddring2365]

Mary is very overlooked in literature and on screen and on screen.This is a shame as she is one of our most intriguing monarchs.

[@memoriesmatter8016]

One forgets that the characters of history were flesh and blood creatures like us. Tragic, banal exciting and luxurious, precarious.

[@EM-lz9kg]

I feel mary & her mother were treated appallingly/ Yet when Mary did sit on the thrown she was cruel to burn so many

[@EM-lz9kg]

Mary Tudor was unfairly unmarried young & waited to virtual middle age in Tudor terms to be on the thrown

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Very entertaining . Though the rather abrupt changes in her moods from imperious Queen to simpering love struck teen seem overdone . Also her penchant for burning " heretics " is rather glossed over .?

[@canman5060]

Is this where we got bloody hell from ?

[@johnstjohn8505]

Such a sobriquet should apply to Elizabeth I if it applies to Mary I.

[@mikelheron20]

@@johnstjohn8505 She wasn't in the same league as her sister - nor was she a religious bigot to the same extent.

[@poundshopcicero3089]

@@mikelheron20 a bigot is a bigot, just as you cannot be selective in racism.

[@feelgoodbeats9376]

@@mikelheron20 Elizabeth was MUCH worse but she did what she could in secret, and history seems determined to gloss over her faults. Mary was not at all bigoted if you closely examine the history, but extremely mild and merciful. As one contemporary commented: “her kindness is such that we must give thanks to God for having given us such a Princess and Lady for Queen. May God preserve her!” - a sentiment that was echoed by all who knew her.

[@derekoldfield9057]

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[@EM-lz9kg]

Catherine Parr ingenuity ensued the line of succession. Without Parr , England would of been thrown into civil war again as it was during the war of the roses

[@angelakyle4838]

Gee - a character whitewash I think, of a religious fanatic who thought nothing of condemning over 300 people to a terrible death. Portrayed here as mostly soft and gentle which fanatics generally aren’t.