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Following recent criticism about the lack of native Christianity as the glue to bind together the various " : -- '* ; " g;' ‘i "T . " unmet: history being taught in Scottish schools and tribes that occupied this part of the world. " ~-- :' *' i" : ' widespread whinging about BBC Scotland spending Oliver’s opening gambit also serves as a warning --: w 'T :‘_ . : ~ : .i increasingly less cash on home-grown fare, the regarding the breathless pace of his narrative. : 1 ". .' ' ' . -: ‘.,’.I;.'ig corporation has risen to both challenges with this Squeezing 2000 years of history into less than ten : '~ ~ ;", ' ,-' .-: : v~ ambitious, hi-definition ten-part voyage through our hours is a tall order, and, at times, the leap from one . . nation’s turbulent history. The project, co-produced significant episode to the next feels a bit abrupt. ‘ ' '- 2' .- : , 4",.‘:' us with the Open University, will extend its tentacles well Compensations come in the form of the breathtaking ' .: ' i _:: ' ‘. .. beyond the small screen, with related radio and web landscape, which has been ruthlessly exploited for the in: ' ~ : -v-.-: ' f Britannia High content, interactive games, concerts and events being series, and in genuinely intriguing moments of i ‘ . «1 .‘ N .. ‘: 00 unleashed over the coming year. historical revelation. Oliver’s excitement at casting an
Presenter Neil Oliver opens the series with a caveat eye over the The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, the about the mythologising of Scottish history, hardly only surviving document chronicling the birth of the surprising given that most of the earliest recorded country we now call Scotland, is particularly infectious. events were documented by outside observers, (Allan Radcliffe)
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