I should be pleased to read what other people think of this two-part series. Have to say I tried to watch the first episode and found it shallow, uninformative and boring, and gave up after 30 minutes; five minutes on the www could have told me more. I tried the same presenter's "History of Railways" a few weeks ago, and despite being a railway "buff" didn't last past the 20-minute mark on that one. No more Dan Snow for me.