Great Kingdoms of Africa

has anyone been watching this?

I found it very fascinating ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pv1m4

i've been watching it, really revealing and insightful.....however, i think the presenter is dreadful.

i'm sorry.

I tried watching it - 2 episodes, but found it so padded out, that I switched it off.

Good documentaries leave hours of tape/film/digital on the "cutting room floor", but these shows have seemed so stretched out, that its clear that there wasn't enough research to thoroughly fill each episode. It would have been better to combine 2 or 3 episodes into 1, so as to keep the information quotient high.

The presenter is not to my taste either. I think his PhD would have been apt, but maybe in discussing something else.

As I was brought up in a communist state were the anti-imprialism prevailed, it looks like a nothing more than A-levels history course to me, as we covered roughly those areas.
Good watch for the folks who were brought up in post-colonial ignorance, though.

^ ha, yes good.

There are some really good docs on iplayer at the mo......i've been totally biggin' up 'Chemistry: A Volatile History'. Really enjoying it; the achievements of past scientists and intellects is awe-inspiring. Also 'How The Earth Made us' - its a little fantastical feeling, mainly on the part of the presenter, but it's a good watch.

also, new series of Newswipe - classic - Tim Key's poem about the Christmas day plane bomber 'Bad Gentleman' was side-splittingly funny.

Hauska
CEO BBC

Sorry, didn't want to sound patronising :-)