Michael Wood on Beowulf

[davem]

Originally Posted by Huscarl

I think that, using the history websites as a barometer of feeling, it wouldn't matter if it was in b&w or on vhs :-), so long as we had the series released!?

Maybe we should hassle to Beeb.... We've had nothing like ISotDA, & the current explosion of interest in English history would surely guarantee big sales of the series - whatever the picture quality.

[Huscarl]

Maybe we should hassle to Beeb.... We've had nothing like ISotDA, & the current explosion of interest in English history would surely guarantee big sales of the series - whatever the picture quality.

I agree, and have tried the Beeb for clues about a future screening of repeats or sales releases of the series, but have met with bluff but polite indifference.

Here's a draft of the original email kindly sent to me by Michael himself in Feb 2008;-

"Hi *******(Hwaet!!)
Thanks ever so for your kind words about the Dark Age series. I’m glad it helped spark off your love of things Anglo-Saxon.
The series sadly was shot on 16 mm film and I don’t think would stand up to being reproduced on DVD now.
But I hope to do something else in that area reasonably soon: though no doubt we’d never recapture the youthful enthusiasm of our team back then!!
All the best
Michael"