BBC Four, February/March 2021 (six episodes) (first broadcast on BBC2 in 1971) By Hiram Morgan Glenda Jackson’s Elizabeth I is the quintessential portrayal of the sixteenth-century monarch, and what a performance! Jackson, aged 35 when the series was made in 1971, was equally convincing as the feisty red-haired teenage princess fending off the attentions of ... Read more
