Kudos to BBC Four. Their medieval season got off to a great start with Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press. But I particularly love the medieval/psychadelic trail for the series with Jimi Hendrix’s classic played on historical instruments. You can watch all the programmes online.

It’s been a good week for techno-medievalists with Melvyn Bragg covering the Norman conquest in In Our Time.

I studied all this stuff when I was at college and it’s really satisfying to see well-made TV shows that deal with complex historical stories rather than the endless archeology programs they run on the mainstream channels.  BBC Four may have an audience of one person - me - but I love it.

It’s inspired me. If the weather’s good, I’m flying off to York tomorrow to look at the Minster and the Shambles and do a bit of time travelling.