Then there was the drama about Blair and Brown on C4 - that one didn't have any overdone sex in it (or underdone, either). I tried the Boudica thing, but I couldn't believe the Iceni royals would have been so grubby, and gave up on Nero and his mother. (Been there, saw that with I Claudius.) I couldn't believe the way the Romans were behaving at the beginning, and I found the speech to camera irritating. Byron could certainly have given the Caesars a run for their money in the dissipation stakes, but he did try to rescue Greece (must check up on Nero, there, though). I switched back to the last minutes of Boudica - I think some Roman wrote the battle part of the script - but what was that stuff about the daughter disappearing and then reappearing on the Embankment with a party of school- children? Her descendants live? Or time travel? By that time, I was waiting for the Hogwarts train to appear at Kings Cross.

The part I saw didn't convince me about the religion of the Iceni being important to them - I would think more intense belief and practice, but less effective Druid spells would be more realistic.

It was a really stupid evening of scheduling. Can anyone invent a recorder that records all the signals to be sorted out later, rerun the tape four times and watch everything in sequence?