In 1642, England was plunged into civil war. One man emerged a hero: Oliver Cromwell. He rose from fenland farmer to become the most powerful commoner in British history. And he got there by very un-British means: Revolution. His convictions led to the killing of a King and gave Britain its only experience of republican rule. He believed he was led by God. But there’s more to Oliver Cromwell than the grim-faced puritan of legend. Cromwell: New Model Englishman reveals the troubled and contradictory man who dominated England as it underwent cataclysmic change in the most bloody war ever fought on English soil.
Produced by Wall To Wall in conjunction with Hooghly River Productions.
