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Newsletter #1: Castles, etc

Newsletter #1: Castles, etc

Will there ever be a Secrets of Great British Castles season 3? How much of a boss was William Marshal? What is my favourite beer? And other pressing questions...

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We showed up in Warwick on the first day of filming of Secrets of Great British Castles, and the nice people who ran the place told us there was one rule.

Shoot anything you like, they said. But don’t go down the oubliette.

So pretty much the first thing we did was to get straight over to oubliette. Our cameraman Ken stuck some Go Pro cameras down there…

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