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Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley Episode 2 | BBC Four | Tues 25 Feb 2020

Lucy Worsley discovers how the history of the Spanish Armada has been manipulated and mythologised by generations of writers, politicians and artists.

The defeat of the Spanish Armada is an inspiring tale of an underdog English navy defeating an ‘invincible’ Spanish fleet: the moment which set England on the path to imperial glory. Tales of Sir Francis Drake calmly finishing his game of bowls and Elizabeth I rousing her troops at Tilbury with the ‘heart and stomach of a king’ have become iconic. However, this is a story that is full of fibs.

Right up to the present day, the defeat of the Spanish Armada has been told and retold to show Britain as an island nation destined for greatness. But what if the story of that victory is built on sand?

Lucy explores how Elizabethan propaganda spun the defeat of the Spanish Armada as a Protestant victory for the Virgin Queen. She then discovers how the Victorians celebrated it as the start of the British Empire when Britain ruled the waves.

Pictured: Lucy at Tilbury

Airdate: Tuesday 25 February 2020 at 9.00pm on BBC Four.

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FILM : Olga | Channel 4 11 July 0:55am

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(2021) 85 mins 15

Strikingly relevant, award-winning drama following a young Ukrainian gymnast pursuing a career in the sport while exiled in Switzerland. Olga (Anastasia Budiashkina), a 15-year-old from Kyiv, flees her home country when the Maidan revolution breaks out in 2014, leading to the overthrow of the nation’s government. A promising gymnast, she heads to Switzerland and joins the Swiss team, for which she qualifies through her dad. She excels in her new home, but difficulties with the language barrier and, more importantly, the frightening news coming through from Ukraine – where her family still are – leave her with intense feelings of anxiety, guilt and anger. Against the backdrop of heightening political tension, Olga tries to carve out a career for herself in the sport she loves. In Ukrainian and French with English subtitles.

July 11 @ 00:55

00:55 — 02:30 (1h 35′)

Channel 4