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Tony Robinson's Gods & Monsters

  • 21-11-2011 8:12pm
    #1
    bnt
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    No, they're not Tony's own Gods & Monsters, they're the subject of a new series on Channel 4, Saturdays at 8PM. It looks like it will be exploring the origins of all kinds of beliefs, explicitly religious or otherwise. Blurb:
    Tony Robinson explores the weird and wonderful history of belief, superstition and religious experience in Britain.

    For 2000 years, Britain has been a Christian country. Or has it? In fact, our ancestors actually kept many other dark, fantastical beliefs alive.

    It was a world underpinned by outlandish, dangerous and plain weird beliefs. Ideas that today seem unbelievable, but were seen as uncontroversial and hugely influential, with some having shaped our history as much as mainstream religion.
    I'll be giving it a watch, anyway.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



Comments

  • #2
    Galvasean
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    Hmmmm... sounds interesting.


  • #3
    MagicMarker
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    I really can't watch him without thinking of Maid Marian and her Merry Men.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFt3WlSi4_U


  • #4
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    I usually think of this:

    Not the same guy but....


  • #5
    Dades
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    For 2000 years, Britain has been a Christian country. Or has it?
    What? 2000 years? Of course it bloody hasn't. Sloppy start if you ask me...

    Tony Robinson gets on my wick, too.


  • #6
    ShooterSF
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    It'll take a cunning plan to avoid upsetting people with a show like this.

    Anyone see my coat?


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  • #7
    sensibleken
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    Dades wrote: »
    What? 2000 years? Of course it bloody hasn't. Sloppy start if you ask me...

    Tony Robinson gets on my wick, too.

    youd be suprised at how many people think it is. all sorts of folk beliefs about jesus visiting britain.

    Be really interesting id say. Since RTE never bother their arse making anything worthwhile on history outside of politics this should make a close aproximation of pre and early christian beliefs.


  • #8
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,115 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    sensibleken wrote: »
    youd be suprised at how many people think it is. all sorts of folk beliefs about jesus visiting britain.
    Indeed - and they still sing William Blake's Jerusalem so often, it's practically an unofficial anthem of England. Here's a version with lyrics:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKRHWT6xdEU

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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