Foundation; The Great Plague With Rob Rinder & Ruth Goodman

“Apple’s rip-roaringly over-the-top sci-fi romp returns for a thrillingly calorific third season. Ludicrous, lavish and larkingly largely than life, it is one of the most bonkers TV shows ever made and all the richer for that lack of inhibition. Foundation is science fiction with rocket jets cranked to the maximum – and benefits from gorgeously evocative special effects which have the camp charm of a 1970s prog rock album cover.”
Ed Power, The Telegraph

“TV historians love to inflict today’s morals on our ancestors, whether that’s castigating them for the evils of empire or bewailing the treatment of criminals. Rob and Ruth were thoroughly disapproving of the wealth gap in Restoration England. It’s a pity that this unhistorical attitude pervaded the programme, because it spoiled an absorbing depiction of how plague decimated London.”
Christopher Stevens, The Daily Mail

“Goodman came into her own outlining the many reasons that caused the plague to spread and ensured that the poor were a clear loser in the outbreak, which some believe killed 100,000 people, about one fifth of the city’s population. Her intervention gave the story the rigour and solemnity it needed, but I was still left feeling wistful for the more serious-minded authored history series from Michael Wood, Simon Schama, Kenneth Clark and the like.”
Ben Dowell, The Times