Lucy Worsley’s Fireworks for a Tudor Queen

BBC FOUR, 9.00PM

Historian Lucy Worsley and scientist Zoe Laughlin recreate one of the earliest fireworks displays held in Britain. The year was 1575 and the occasion the extravagant festivities laid on by suitor Robert Dudley to woo Queen Elizabeth I. Worsley scours the history books and travels to Italy while Laughlin goes even further afield to research making authentic Elizabethan-style rockets, firework fountains and even a flame-belching dragon for a memorial event held at Kenilworth Castle. GO