I don't think I managed more than one episode of The Tudors, or maybe it was two. Was that the one where Henry started off having to deal with a rebellion by his uncle - if Henry had a living uncle you could see why he might think he had a better claim to the throne - or did the mysterious uncle belong to Ray Winstone as Henry, whose Anne was Helena Bonham Carter? HBC as AB was disappointingly disappointing, too, though that version did throw up my favourite Cromwell until now, in the shape of Danny Webb (no thanks to the script).

You're right, Tutin is better at the downfall than the rise. I don't dislike Bujold. I avoided The Other Boleyn Girl, having heard an extract from the novel read out on the radio, but stills suggest Natalie Portman looked quite plausible as Anne, in a way that her Dormer namesake didn't to me.

Something that hit me during last night's episode, however, was that Patrick Troughton is my One True Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk. (Were there any politicians at Henry's court not called Thomas?) Every time Bernard Hill stalks down a corridor, my mind protests "You are not the Duke of Norfolk!"