Michael Wood - Christina: A Medieval Life - 2008
Michael Wood explores village life in 14th century England, a time of plague, war and famine. Through the use of a remarkably complete set of documentary records, he explores Codicote in Hertfordshire, focusing on peasant Christina Cok and her family difficulties
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Michael Wood
Michael Wood on Beowulf - 2009
Historian, Michael Wood traces the birth of English poetry back to the Anglo-Saxons in the Dark Ages
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Michael Wood
Michael Wood: Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman 2015
Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden is the daughter of a Warwickshire farmer, but she marries into a new life in the rising Tudor middle class in Stratford-upon-Avon. There she has eight children, three of whom die young. Her husband becomes Mayor, but is bankrupted by his shady business dealings. Faced with financial ruin, religious persecution and power politics, the family is the glue that keeps them together until they are rescued by Mary's successful eldest son - William Shakespeare
Quality: 9/10