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6. England's Last Battle: The West Country
2014 - Season 4
In 1685, a rebel army landed at the pretty Dorset port of Lyme Regis and swept up through Somerset, pausing at Taunton to declare its leader, Duke of Monmouth, the rightful king. Tony walks in their footsteps and relives their spirit. Tony Robinson hikes up from Dorset's Jurassic Coast to the Somerset Levels, in the footsteps of the dashing young Duke of Monmouth, who led a revolution against James II
5. King John's Ruin: The Peak District
2014 - Season 4
Nowhere is fact and fiction so entwined than in the stories of King John, Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Yet out of this legendary time came Magna Carta, a foundations stone of modern democracy. On the 800th anniversary of the signing, Tony unravels the history from the myth. In Sherwood Forest and the Peak District, Tony Robinson explores the story of King John, the hapless monarch who stumbled from one crisis to another.
4. Nazi Occupation: The Channel Islands
2014 - Season 4
For five years, the Channel Islands were occupied by the Germans, the only part of the British Isles to be so. Tony tells of the story of the Occupation; its physical impact is still very visible and the experience still remembered. Tony Robinson takes a four-day walk through Guernsey and Jersey, finding out what life was like there for the five years of German occupation in World War II
3. Norman Conquest of Pembrokeshire
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Tony Robinson is out to discover why Pembrokeshire feels so English.
2. Victoria and Albert's Highland Fling
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Tony Robinson discovers how Queen Victoria and Prince Albert helped to shape Scottish traditions.
1. Bronte Country
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The dramatic moors and valleys of West Yorkshire inspired the Brontes.
