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  Lucy Worsley Investigates is an investigative documentary that will make you look at History classes differently. Forget the endless boring lessons. Here, the focus is on the mystery and actual investigation work. In this first season (I hope there will be more), Lucy Worsley investigates 4 dramatic chapters of British History. If you don't know much about it, don't worry, it is well-explained and put into context. It is like picking up a random of facts and happenings and giving them real meaning. Plague, witches, mental health, and murderer  In these 4 episodes, Lucy Worsley investigates the Black Death, the witch trials, how mental health evolved in the last couple of centuries, and the murder of the Princes in the tower. It is all well documented and narrated as a great entertaining story. Fascinating! You do not always have complete answers to the questions, though. For example, in the princes' episode, we never have a definite explanation for what happened or if th...

  Cunk on Earth is a satirical television show presented by the comedian Diane Morgan as the character Philomena Cunk. This mockumentary explores a wide range of historical and cultural topics in a humorous and irreverent style, as only Morgan could do.  The show covers a large branch of subjects. Each episode focuses on a different historical period or cultural phenomenon, from Cave Men to World War. While some topics are given more depth than others, the show generally does a good job of providing a broad overview while still managing to insert plenty of jokes and asides. It is a clever show that can simultaneously deliver many laughs and absurdities and some actual facts about human history. A unique brand of humor Humor is the first thing that comes to mind when considering Cunk on Earth . Philomena Cunk comes across as an ignorant journalist. She makes all kinds of stupid questions and observations you could imagine. Yet, her, at first sight, nonsensical comments are no...