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Princes in the Tower

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Princes in the Tower

Post by Melisende » Tue December 30th, 2008, 11:02 pm

Did anyone in OZ catch the Princes in the Tower doc-drama on ABC TV the other night. And if so, what did you think of it?
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Post by pat » Wed December 31st, 2008, 7:57 am

Missed it! Bu99er!
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Post by Amanda » Wed December 31st, 2008, 11:30 am

I missed it too! Hopefully ABC2 might run it....

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Post by boswellbaxter » Wed December 31st, 2008, 3:23 pm

I've never seen it, though I think it's available in the US on DVD. The Richard III Society's Yahoo group has discussed it.
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Post by boswellbaxter » Wed December 31st, 2008, 11:11 pm

[quote=""Amanda""]Was it this one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462488/[/quote]

I believe it's the same one.
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Post by Melisende » Sat January 3rd, 2009, 8:45 am

Yes, that's it!
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Post by Amanda » Sat January 3rd, 2009, 10:34 am

Now that I think about it....

I think that I downloaded it some time ago. I do remember finding the torrents for it, and getting quite excited about it. Will have to rifle through the computer!

ETA: I download more than I watch...much like I buy more books than I can read! I downloaded Alatrise ages ago, only to find out just this minute that it is on TV tomorrow night!

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Post by Mello » Mon February 16th, 2009, 11:43 am

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I did happen to see this when it was on Australian television. It was very interesting - not least because of a very yummy Perkin Warbeck! It was freely admitted in the beginning that there were no transcripts kept of Perkins' interrogations - so I guess there was a lot of creative license taken. It was certainly sympathetic to him and to Elizabeth of York - not so to Henry and his mother. I won't say who was blamed for the princes' deaths, but there was an interesting little twist at the end.

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Post by Amanda » Wed February 18th, 2009, 9:10 am

Just giving the heads up Aussies!

ABC are rerunning Princes in the Tower on Sunday night 11:20 (ABC1).

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