http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00yjy5r/Chivalry_and_Betrayal_The_Hundred_Years_War_Trouble_in_the_Family_13371360/
If you are watching World Without End or watched The Hollow Crown, follow the history on BBC 4. Another great documentary with another great presenter.
And that awkward moment when the interviewer goes, “Henry the Fourth, yeah?” and we’re all like, NOOOOO.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57532311/j.k-rowling-on-the-private-world-in-my-head/- Charlie Rose mentions Hitchens’ Harry Potter Review - JK Rowling Interview - CBS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/books/review/Hitchens-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 - Hitchens’ review:
‘The distinctly slushy close of the story may seem to hold out the faint promise of a sequel, but I honestly think and sincerely hope that this will not occur. The toys have been put firmly back in the box, the wand has been folded up, and the conjuror is discreetly accepting payment while the children clamor for fresh entertainments. (I recommend that they graduate to Philip Pullman, whose daemon scheme is finer than any patronus.) It’s achievement enough that “19 years later,” as the last chapter-heading has it, and quite probably for many decades after that, there will still be millions of adults who recall their initiation to literature as a little touch of Harry in the night.’
Henry V - Act 4, prologue
Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn’d away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.
