Pat Stocker

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The Supervet What is the point Channel 4 in showing a programme which has surgical procedures at its very core IF ALL you are going to do is blur the op. site to make it unviewable I think Channel 4 is displaying a disdainful attitude towards its viewers and which is both utterly pointless and very PATRONISING Let viewers make theIr own minds up. We are adults capable of making the decision as to whether or not we want to look at a particular scene, We don’t NEED a censor from you to dictate what we can or cannot watch. I am soooo angry, how very dare you make that choice for me. I hope you are sold off to the private sector. I don’t need BIG DADDY dictating to me Yours VERY disgustfully and highly offended Ms P Stocker

I have seen this film sooo many times, I know practically all of it of by heart. It had such an impact on me as an impressionable 14 year old. In his soliloquies, he looks straight into the camera and I felt he was talking just to me. It was soo powerful. He is both witty, funny, sexy and murderous. He makes Richard an attractive character in spite of his murderous intentions and acts. Olivier is supported by a glittering case, the royalty of English theatre actors are there. As I say have seen it soo often that in the final scene where he holds his sword aloft, I noticed that the armour on his elbows bending, as he lifts his arm upwards, obviously not made of metal. I only mention this as no one else has made comment on this when pointing out the ‘goofs’ of the film. It is my most favourite film, and never ceases to engage, move and fascinate me. It has made me a fervent supporter and admirer of king Richard III. AND a firm believer of his innocence in the murder of the two princes, along with the murders of other characters that Shakespeare lays at his door. He was the most loyal and most trusted brother of Edward IV. Edward heaped titles and honours on Richard. On 17 October 1469, he was made Constable of England. In November, he replaced William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, as Chief Justice of North Wales. The following year, he was appointed Chief Steward and Chamberlain of Wales. On 18 May 1471, Richard was named Great Chamberlain and Lord High Admiral of England. Other positions followed: High Sheriff of Cumberland for life, Lieutenant of the North and Commander-in-Chief against the Scots and hereditary warden of the west March. Richard in turn clearly loved his older brother, his only son he named Edward. Can all this lead him then to murder his nephews? It is a question which we will probably never know the answer to. And that makes him the most widely written about king in English history His bravery on the field of battle was legendary and he was the last English king to be killed in battle. His body desecrated and slung naked over a horse and carried away from Bosworth. The final chapter was the discovery of his body in Leicester on the former site of Greyfriars priory. His body was then interred with ‘Dignity and Honour’ in a ceremony befitting the last Plantagenet king of England.