Apart from my love of history, I do find many historic docu's a bit OTT...often badly acted or dressed up... or dull as ditch water. Where was the middle ground?

then Wolf Hall made me so happy I nearly died. It was akin 20 year single malt vs cans of cheap lager.

so where is the finest craft beer of history...? the prime cider of docu's? Where is the craft coffee of being taught while sitting spell bound?

Lucy has pulled off a superb balance here... Henry VIII's six wives needed a proper showcase, and Ms Worsley IS the girl to do it.

She slips from scene to scene, in modern dress or in character, with astounding ease.

The filming is good, if not Wolf Hall standard (what ever will be?), it's compelling because it's a half way genre. And that makes it whole. No one else can do this so far.
There are scenes of such cleverness to make a watcher smile: Lucy sits with Portraits of the wives in the back of a car, and on public transport, and it looks perfect.
She crosses rooms and lowers her eyes from Henry... and then in the next scene is a modern lady strolling an historic building.

OK.. my minor clever-girl-crush aside... I adore the woman and he ability to explain, defend and strike deep into the heart of history.
http://www.lucyworsley.com/six-wives-with-lucy-worsley/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...uggid=b0854cjm

I've watched them through once and will do so again.

9/10 (where Wolf Hall is a 10, and Planet Earth II is a 9/10)

and I rarely score that high for TV