Museum Secrets - The National Maritime Museum

[anteros_lmc]

I was going to post a link to the BBC Radio 4 Making Histories programme on naval memoirs and despatches that was on earlier today, but latin_cat beat me to it, so you can find the link and read her lovely little review here: BBC Radio 4: Naval Dispatches and Memoirs.

Instead here's a link to a Canadian History Channel programme that's on later this week: Museum Secrets - The National Maritime Museum. The programme features six artefacts from the museum's collections including a balloon despatched in search of the missing Franklin expedition, an "infernal machine" used during the Crimean war, a pirate sword and, inevitably, Nelson's Trafalgar jacket. There's also a trailer for the episode here:

Comments

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

That Canadian show looks good. Is there any way we're going to get to see it?

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

The whole series looks fascinating doesn't it? Tbh I don't know when it will be shown here. It's possible it may already be available on Sky or cable or somesuch. I only have Freeview so I'm a bit clueless about things like this :} I guess it will turn up on the HIstory channel at some stage.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched any of these. This looks terrific. Also hammock nettings!! My SO is ruining his eyesight trying to make them with perfect squares at 1:0 scale. He needs to see this. :)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I don't know if the series has actually been shown in the UK yet, but there's quite a lot of good information on the website.

Btw if SO needs pictures of hammock netting, there's some good ones here :)

Out of interest, if you had to select "secrets" from your museum, what would you choose?

[esteven]

This is so unfaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
*wails*
The trailer was great...that's why this is all so unfair
*sobs*

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it! I haven't been able to see this programme either! Hopefully we'll get to see it one day :}

[esteven]

Is it not available on an iplayer? That way you could at least watch it while I cannot access those darned things from outside UK

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Sadly no, it's not the on iPlayer, it's not a BBC production. I guess it'll get shown on terrestrial tv eventually, but I have no idea when :(

[esteven]

*sighs with you*