Elizabeth R

Pros: Spellbinding turn by Glenda Jackson; brilliant scripts; historical accuracy; sumptuous costumes; compleat DVD set.
Cons: Off with your silly head!

‘She is magnificent!’ - Sir Francis Bacon exclaiming to Sir Robert Cecil, on hearing one of Elizabeth I's later speeches, as dramatized in ‘Elizabeth R’. She was the last of the Tudor line. She was the lion's cub, and ...

Pros: More factual and tasteful than painfully melodramatic
Cons: Typical 1970's BBC production values

I do not think that it would be very fun to actually be a head of state. To have the ability to control the lives and activities of a whole nation of people would be a daunting thing to possess, to say the least. While it may be libelous to say that...