'Tudors' drama brings 'shame' on BBC, says historian

Racy period drama 'The Tudors' brings “shame” on the BBC with its “ignorance” of the facts, one of Britain’s best-known historians has claimed.

David Starkey, who specialises in Henry VIII and the Tudors, told an audience at Cheltenham Literature Festival the TV series was “terrible history” and that most of the costume “was Elizabethan”.