Patrick Barlow AKA Desmond Olivier Dingle

any other fans of all his excellent history based radio shows?

they are brilliant! All the worlds a Globe, The arts and how they was done, Iconic Icons and especially The Complete life and works of William Shakespeare

anyway the latter is back on Radio 4 extra, check it out

this one featuring Brian Cox is especially hilarious

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k2q6

i can recommend his books too!

I'm very fond of it. On the wireless. I found a TV version on the BBC site from what seemed like many years ago. It just did not work. Some things belong on the wireless.

on the bbc??

dont remember that

do you mean the show they did on C4?

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/massive-landmarks-of-the-twentieth-century/4od

Sorry! Stupid me. C4 it was, too. Didn't work on C4 either.