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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Bearnan on Sunday 17 March 19 10:36 GMT (UK)
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Skeletons of the Mary Rose : The New Evidence. One off documentary following scientists as they use isotope and DNA analysis to identify the crew of Henry V111's flagship, and trace their surviving descendants. On Channel 4 tonight at 8 ..... Hopefully worth a watch.
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Oooo, that sounds interesting. I will try to find a way to get hold of this.
Thanks for letting us know. ;)
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And what a dilemma for me! Because it clashes with Midsomer Murders!
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Thanks for that...sounds very interesting!
Carol
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It's being repeated in the wee small hours on 4seven if that helps anyone. Otherwise hopefully the 4od catch-up service.
Or watch c4 at 8 and msm at 9 on itv+1 (if that doesn't produce a new clash ;D)
Jane :-)
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I have set this to record but what gets me about the advertising of the programme is that they keep on going on about there being Africans in the crew as if this is new. It is not. Within a few years of the Mary Rose being raised and research being carried out they had already established that the crew was multi national which is hardly surprising given the use of mercenaries, indentured servants and dare one say it slaves at the time all over Europe and further afield.
Still it will be interesting to see what they make of the isotope and DNA analysis. Just hope its more scientifically based than the charade that was Cheddar Gorge man.
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Thanks for the heads up on this programme, I've set it to record.
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Oooh thanks for this, how exciting. I'll watch it on catch-up in a day or two. I'm currently doing the FutureLearn online course about the Tudors and so that programme will fit in very nicely indeed.
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I thought The Royal Archer looked a bit like Sean Bean.
And was’nt the diver handsome..
Some surprises butI May have misheard but it was said about the pomrgranite on the zRoyal Archer’s equipment ,that it could be a connection to Katherine of Aragon but she had been “dead for thirty years”.
Well no,she died 3 years after her divorce which was in 1533, dying 1536.
Mary Rose sank 1545,so only 9 years after her death so I could ’nt have
mistaken 13 either.
It intrigues me but my tiddlerG.Grandson is here and the zTV was low.
It ought not have been a surprise to one expert re the archers having twisted spines .
The stress on their bodies was very great and developed one side more than the other. It was a law that men must practice archery every Sunday afternoon,at the butts.
A six foot English longbow needed great strength to pull.
Viktoria.
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Yes I heard it as 30 years too. Maybe my hearing is going as well ;)
From a historical point of view they were presenting things as new that have been known for a long time. The quest to find a living descendant of one of the two named people on the Mary Rose seemed a waste of time and added nothing as far as I could see. Just hope their ethnicity DNA testing was more reliable and fact based than Ancestry's ( a bit of wishful thinking there methinks!)
The one thing I took away from it was the Museum looked good and i wouldn't mind visiting if i was in the area.
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i went to the Museum last northern summer. It was fantastic.
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On a trip to Portsmouth during holiday 2 years ago, we spent a lovely day viewing the 3 ships.
Looking forward to viewing the recorded programme.
JFCH
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I visited in the early days, when the ship was in a temporary structure. Despite the small amount of exhibition space, it was a fantastic place to visit.
The really impressive sight is, of course, the ship. Having seen it only through the window of the TV screen, the sheer size of it surprised me. It is HUGE.