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- In short, yes, but with extensive dramatic license. Though the broad strokes of the film are historically accurate, the majority of its characters are fictional, including Davis’ Nanisca and Thuso Mbedu ’s Nawi, a young warrior-in-training.
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BBC Oral History Collection, November 1962. Real rural affairs. The writers of Dick Barton were in fact brought over to tackle the scripts, but there was also an insistence that real life rural...
BBC Oral History Collection, November 1962. Real rural affairs. The writers of Dick Barton were in fact brought over to tackle the scripts, but there was also an insistence that real life...
Jan 1, 2011 · Phil Archer became a household name on 22 September 1955, when his wife, Grace, died in his arms after trying to save her horses from a stable fire. BBC executives claimed the occurrence of the ...
The Archers is set in the fictional village of Ambridge in the fictional county of Borsetshire, in England. Borsetshire is situated between what are, in reality, the contiguous counties of Worcestershire and Warwickshire, south of Birmingham in The Midlands of England.
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In short, yes, but with extensive dramatic license. Though the broad strokes of the film are historically accurate, the majority of its characters are fictional, including Davis’ Nanisca and Thuso Mbedu’s Nawi, a young warrior-in-training. (Nanisca and Nawi share names with documented members of the Agojie but are not exact mirrors of these women.)...
The first recorded mention of the Agojie dates to 1729. But the unit was possibly formed even earlier, toward the beginning of Dahomey’s existence, when King Huegbadja (reigned circa 1645 to 1685) created a corps of woman elephant hunters. Alternatively, Queen Hangbe, who briefly ruled as regent following the death of her brother in the early 18th ...
Dahomey’s military dominance started to wane in the second half of the 19th century, when its army repeatedly failed to capture Abeokuta, a well-fortified Egba capital in what is now southwest Nigeria. An 1851 battle with the Egba, who’d settled in the region following the decline of the Oyo Empire, resulted in the deaths of up to 2,000 Agojie; in ...
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The 10 Archers storylines that have made you cry the most. Countless episodes in The Archers 68 year history have seen listeners weeping in their kitchens or having to pull their cars into...
