The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() This is the first day of filming my new medieval TV series, Britain’s Bloody Crown, and I’ve begun to wonder whether battling it out in the real Middle Ages mightn’t have been more comfortable. The effort of condensing the lethal politics of medieval Northumberland into pithy 20-second TV soundbites is suddenly taking its toll. Our expensive camera is malfunctioning and when the filming kit works, my brain doesn’t. It was meant as a joke, but he very nearly succeeds, and now everyone is at boiling point. To lighten the mood the cameraman pretends to run over the director in his van. We’re all tired, wet, cold and hungry and tempers are starting to fray. Rain has been slashing sideways against the forbidding walls of Bamburgh Castle for about seven hours. ![]() The 30-year conflict raged from the 1450s to the 1480s and involved dozens of noble families Condensing the real history of the Wars of the Roses into four hours of TV is not easy. ![]()
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