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BBC2, 8pm There seems to be an appetite for these living history shows, where people get dressed up in period costume while immersing themselves in an different era.

Perhaps producers think we’ll pay more attention if someone is wearing a brown tunic or bonnet?

Here, four confectioners step back in time to find out what life was like for their Tudor predecessors – and it looks like a lot of hard graft. They learn to make sweet treats of the past, with the equipment used 400 years ago, so not an electric whisk or spiralizer in sight. Not to mention the ever-present risk that their flowing Tudor outfits will catch fire in the huge open oven.

Chocolatiers Diana Short and Paul A Young, sweet consultant Andy Baxendale and wedding cake designer Cynthia Stroud spend four days working from original recipes and ingredients.

And the result is sugar-laden dishes that haven’t been tasted for hundreds of years. HISTORY Team go back in time