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Broadcasting

Presenter

  • Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero Revealed, Channel 4, September 2019, and PBS (US), 14 June 2020
  • Revolutions: The Ideas that Changed the World (6 x 1 hour), PBS and Discovery, April 17-May 22, 2019. Saul appears in Episode 6: The Smartphone.
  • War Above the Trenches (2 x 1 hour), UKTV Yesterday Channel and RMC Découverte (France), 1 & 8 April 2018
  • Russia: A Timewatch Guide, BBC4, 22 November 2016 click here to watch
  • World War Two: A Timewatch Guide, BBC4, 25 February 2016
  • The Equine Army, BBC1 and BBC4, 2 June and 30 September 2014
  • ‘Clifton House’, Britain’s Secret Homes, Episode 4, ITV1, 28 June 2013
  • ‘The Taunton Cannon’, Britain’s Secret Treasures, Episode 1, ITVI, 16 July 2012
  • Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How Wars are Really Won (3 x 1 hour), BBC4, 2, 9 and 16 February 2012 Click here for clip from Episode 1 from Episode 2 and from Episode 3
  • Filton’s Fabulous Flying Machines, BBC1, 26 July 2010  Click here to watch clip
  • ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Lost Guns’, Timewatch, BBC2, 21 February 2009 (see below for details) Click here to watch clip
  • ‘The Greatest Knight’, Timewatch, BBC2, 19 January 2008 (see inset picture)
  • ‘So You Think You’re Royal?’ (8 x 1 hour), Sky One, May-July 2007
  • ‘Escape From…’ (7 x 30 mins), Channel Five, May-June 2004
  • ‘The Queen and her Lover’, Timewatch, BBC2, 15 February 2001

Historical Consultant

  • ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Lost Guns’, Timewatch, BBC2, March 2009
  • ‘Zulu: The True Story’, Timewatch, BBC2, October 2003 Click here to watch
  • ‘A Very British Mutiny’, Timewatch, BBC2, 4 December 1999
  • ‘The Desert Rats’, ITV1, 14 November 1999

Talking Head

  • Road to Victory in Colour (5 episodes), Discovery UK and Netflix, 2021
  • Prince Albert, Channel 4, September 2019
  • Greatest Events of World War Two in Colour (10 x 1 hour), Discovery UK and Netflix, May-June 2019
  • Presidents at War (2 x 1 hour), History Channel, 17/18 January 2019
  • England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey (3 x 1 hour), BBC4, 9-11 January 2018
  • Abandoned Engineering (series), Yesterday Channel, from 7 March 2017
  • Hitler: The Rise and Fall (6 x 1 hour), More4, from 2 October 2016
  • Saving the Forgotten Jews, BBC1, 13 December 2015
  • Blood & Gold: The Making of Spain with Simon Sebag-Montefiore, BBC4, 8 December 2015
  • BBC Breakfast (with former hostage Olivier Cojot-Goldberg), 25 June 2015
  • Sean Bean’s Waterloo (2 x 1 hour), History Channel, June 2015 Click here to watch Episode 1  Click here to watch Episode 2
  • Wellington: The Iron Duke Unmasked, BBC2, 10 May 2015
  • The Birth of Empire (2 x 1hour), BBC2, 30 April & 7 May 2014
  • Channel 5 News, 5 June 2014 Click here to watch clip
  • The First Great Escape, Channel 5, 23 March 2014 click here to watch clip
  • The Genius of Invention, BBC2, 24 January 2013
  • Queen Victoria’s Children, BBC2, 3 January 2013
  • The British (7 x 1hour), Sky Atlantic, September/October 2012
  • ‘The Golden Throne’, Masterpieces of the East, BBC4, 21 February 2008
  • Masters and Commanders, BBC4 and BBC2, December 2006
  • Britain’s Greatest Monarch, Five, 13 June 2005
  • Ten Days to Victory, National Geographic Channel, 8 May 2005
  • Searching for Victoria, BBC1, May 2004
  • ‘The Secrets of Enzo Ferrari’, Timewatch, BBC2, 23 January 2004
  • ‘Zulu: The True Story’, Timewatch, BBC2, October 2003
  • Scotland’s Empire, BBC Scotland, March 2003
  • ‘Magic of War’, Secret History, Channel Four, 2 July 2002
  • ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, Secret History, Channel Four, 4 June 2002
  • ‘A Very British Mutiny’, Timewatch, BBC2, 4 December 1999

On-screen Expert

Radio

  • Proms Plus: Sinking of the Lusitania, Radio 3, 15 August 2018 Click here to lisen
  • Free Thinking (debating Heroism versus Failure with David Starkey and Amanda Foreman), Radio 3, 16 July 2015 Click here to listen
  • The Simon Mayo Show, Radio 2, 14 November 2013
  • ‘Clausewitz and On War‘, In Our Time, Radio 4, 17 May 2012 Click here to listen
  • Richard Bacon Show, Radio 5 Live, 6 February 2012 Click here to listen
  • ‘Custer’s Last Stand’, In Our Time, Radio 4, 19 May 2011  Click here to listen
  • ‘How the Rest Got Home’ (Presenter), Radio 4, 2 June 2010
  • ‘The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation’, In Our Time, Radio 4, 15 April 2010  Click here to listen
  • Broadcasting House, Radio 4, 8 March 2009
  • ‘Historical accuracy in feature films’, Today Programme, Radio 4, 12 January 2009
  • Broadcasting House, Radio 4, 8 June 2008
  • ‘The Retreat from Kabul’, Random Edition, Radio 4, 16 January 2008
  • ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, In Our Time, Radio 4, 10 January 2008  Click here to listen
  • ‘How important is it that films are historically accurate?’, Today Programme, Radio 4, 15 August 2005
  • ‘Zulu’, Night Waves, Radio 3, 28 September 2004
  • ‘What if the Zulus had defeated the British in 1879?’, What If?, Radio 4, 26 April 2004
  • ‘The Prince Regent’, The Long View, Radio 4, 22 October 2004