Dear Bernard

I have felt compelled to send you an email after watching ‘The Last Kingdom’ – such is it’s brilliance!

I enjoyed ‘Vikings’ enormously but the script, historical reference of ‘LK’ left it in it’s wake!

‘Sharpe’ was also a pivotal part of my young life and quickly received cult status for a host of reasons – again the superb formula of weaving fiction with historical fact and of course….Sean Bean’s performance. His unrivalled skill of using the word ‘bastard’ just wonderful! He should have been Bond: ‘Bastard, James Bastard!’

Yet, it was so multi layered and had all the components of life from joy to despair…again repeated in ‘LK’ to masterful effect.

So in a nutshell – a huge huge huge  ‘Thanks’ for the joy you have given to all!

Forever grateful!

Jim Tomlinson

(Age 55 – too old to fight but there on the hill!)

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