That Melvyn Bragg programme was great, especially the medieval stuff.

Getting back to the original topic, did you see this evening's TC? It was Cannae. Police officers were the contestants, and out of all the teams so far they seemed to have the best command structure and the best performance on the field. Having disabled the Roman cavalry more or less exactly as Hannibal did, they then unfortunately decided to try to just hold a line against the numerically superior Roman infantry, and got creamed. Still not a bad performance by comparison with some of the others though.
I can't believe the BBC are so tight that they even used the combat music from RTW! The music's great, I know, but you would have thought they would have done a bit more to prevent the show being just one huge RTW infomercial!