{"id":768,"date":"2014-09-01T23:07:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=768"},"modified":"2014-09-01T23:07:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:07:57","slug":"brian-blessed-who-do-you-think-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/01\/brian-blessed-who-do-you-think-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Blessed – Who Do You Think You Are?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The force of nature that is Brian Blessed (whose memorable turn as Brod in series three Survivors <\/em> episode Law of the Jungle<\/strong> is one of the guest-starring highlights of the final series) is the focus of the latest episode of the BBC personal family history show Who Do You Think You Are?<\/em> (14 August 2014)<\/p>\n

Interviewed for the Radio Times<\/em><\/a>, Blessed revealed: “I didn’t want to find some boring king or duke or baron; I was hoping to find normal people \u2028with all their turmoil and suffering and joy. And by God, we have done! It’s more Dickensian than Dickens. Even the camera crew was weeping. They’re saying it’s the best they’ve ever filmed.”<\/p>\n

Who Do You Think You Are? Series 11: 2. Brian Blessed <\/em>is available (in the UK) on the BBC iPlayer<\/a> until 23 October 2014.<\/p>\n

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Brian Blessed – Brod, original Survivors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The force of nature that is Brian Blessed (whose memorable turn as Brod in series three Survivors episode Law of the Jungle is one of the guest-starring highlights of the final series) is the focus of the latest episode of the BBC personal family history show Who Do You Think You Are? (14 August 2014) … Continue reading “Brian Blessed – Who Do You Think You Are?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-and-crew","category-cast-news","category-on-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-co","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}