The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots
The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots
Katie Leung narrates the story of amateur codebreakers Satoshi Tomokiyo, George Lasry and Norbert Biermann who collaborated across continents to decipher a mysterious cache of coded letters from the 1570s and 1580s, discovering they were from Mary, Queen of Scots. The unlocked letters bring new insights into her long years of captivity in Elizabethan England, her power plays, complaints and clandestine methods for communicating with her followers. Set against Mary's dramatic journey - from infant queen, through civil war, abdication and years of captivity - the film examines the lengths Mary went to conceal her words and the ingenuity needed to decode her letters today, even with the help of 21st-century computing
The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots airs on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD at 11:05 PM, Thursday 23 October. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
History
Katie Leung
Narrator
Russell Barnes
Director
Craig Collinson
Director