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Broadcasting

Presenter

  • ‘Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How Wars are Really Won’ (3 x 1 hour), BBC4, 2, 9 and 16 February 2012 Click here to watch clip
  • ‘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) Click here to watch film
  • ‘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 Click here to watch part of series
  • ‘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
  • ‘A Very British Mutiny’, Timewatch, BBC2, 4 December 1999
  • ‘The Desert Rats’, ITV1, 14 November 1999

Talking Head

  • ‘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

  • 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