Now there is a skill in making history fun but at the same time delivering factually correct material.
And as everyone knows, some historians and teachers fall along way short of getting it right.
But not the BBC, whose short 15 minute series Homeschool History gets it just hits the button.
Not that I am surprised given that it is delivered by Greg Jenner, he of Horrible Histories, who as a every parent and interested kid will know has been offering up romps through our collective past.
We still have many of his publications, which are both funny and good history.
And by good history, I mean stories which tell you all you want to know, are clever and amusing, but don’t talk down to the listener.
Today I joined “Greg Jenner in Ancient Egypt to meet the famous Queen Cleopatra. Learn all about her remarkable reign, the reason she was prevented from ruling alone, and why she once had to make an entrance wrapped in a duvet”.*
But I could also on previous occasions have met the Gladiators to “learn your Samnites from your Retiarius”, Mansa Musa in medieval West Africa who was “the ruler of the Mali Empire and the richest man to ever live”, along with the Stone Age, China and much more.
Leaving me just to repeat that the series is, Fun History lessons for all the family, presented by Horrible Histories Greg Jenner., which is produced by Abi Paterson, with the script written by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch and Emma Nagouse, and the Historical consultant is Dr Joyce Tyldesley.
And that it is a Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4
*Cleopatra, Homeschoohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kgnr
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But not the BBC, whose short 15 minute series Homeschool History gets it just hits the button.
Not that I am surprised given that it is delivered by Greg Jenner, he of Horrible Histories, who as a every parent and interested kid will know has been offering up romps through our collective past.
We still have many of his publications, which are both funny and good history.
And by good history, I mean stories which tell you all you want to know, are clever and amusing, but don’t talk down to the listener.
Today I joined “Greg Jenner in Ancient Egypt to meet the famous Queen Cleopatra. Learn all about her remarkable reign, the reason she was prevented from ruling alone, and why she once had to make an entrance wrapped in a duvet”.*
Leaving me just to repeat that the series is, Fun History lessons for all the family, presented by Horrible Histories Greg Jenner., which is produced by Abi Paterson, with the script written by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch and Emma Nagouse, and the Historical consultant is Dr Joyce Tyldesley.
And that it is a Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4
*Cleopatra, Homeschoohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kgnr
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