An adult education series dealing with personalities of the English Civil War. Produced by Guthrie Moir.

“…deserves whole articles of appraisal all to itself. Oh! for that University of the Air.” Maurice Wiggin, Sunday Times. June 12.

“…Rediffusion’s excellent ‘Royalist and Roundhead’ series….” George Melly, The Observer. June 19.

“…the information was presented with a touch of imagination.” Philip Purser, Sunday Telegraph. June 26.

“Well worth doing, this programme….” Gerald Fay, The Guardian. July 23.


George Murrell as Sir John Eliot with a Parliamentary onlooker in “Coke and Eliot”, a programme in the “Royalist and Roundhead” series.