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The first episode, Heart of Oak, of this new four-part series on the history of the Royal Navy, airs at 2100 on Friday 15th January 2010.
The Guardian says:
"Britain's national story is bound up with our mastery of the seas. But we shouldn't, suggests Dan Snow's excellent history of the Royal Navy, assume this was somehow inevitable. Instead, after the defeat of the Armada, successive administrations invested heavily in the Navy. At the time of the Restoration, for example, when Samuel Pepys overhauled its organisation, the Senior Service gobbled 25% of the national budget. The first of four episodes takes the story up to the Glorious Revolution of 1688".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/comingup/empire-of-the-seas/
The Guardian says:
"Britain's national story is bound up with our mastery of the seas. But we shouldn't, suggests Dan Snow's excellent history of the Royal Navy, assume this was somehow inevitable. Instead, after the defeat of the Armada, successive administrations invested heavily in the Navy. At the time of the Restoration, for example, when Samuel Pepys overhauled its organisation, the Senior Service gobbled 25% of the national budget. The first of four episodes takes the story up to the Glorious Revolution of 1688".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/comingup/empire-of-the-seas/