Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley: Armada

BBC Four HD

2:40 AM to 3:40 AM

Wednesday 12 March

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The historian examines how writers, politicians and artists have manipulated the history of the Spanish Armada. She takes a look at the most famous parts of the story, from Francis Drake's game of bowls to Elizabeth I rousing her troops at Tilbury, and reveals how in Victorian times, the story was used as propaganda for the British Empire