Today is the day of possibly the most important announcement any Ricardian might ever experience: are the human remains found in Leicester those of Richard III?
All will be revealed at 10h00 UK time and 21h00 AEST. The results will be available on Twitter (http://twitter.com/uniofleicester) and BBC News will be carrying a live stream, though this might not be available to viewers in Australia.
However, these limitations only exist with television coverage, radio coverage is free world wide. BBC Radio Leicester will cover the big day from 6h00 (17h00 AEST) onwards. If you have a smartphone, there is a free app called Tune-In Radio, which allows you to access pretty much any radio station in the world (thanks Jennie for the information!) or you can listen to it over your computer.
The press conference will also be recorded and will be available to watch on the website of the University of Leicester (www.le.ac.uk/) as soon as possible.
Tomorrow morning AEST, Channel 4 will also broadcast the documentary, though again this will not be available to Australian viewers, unless you have some special software. We certainly hope that the ABC or SBS will buy it as soon as possible and make it available to all of us!
And on Tuesday, 5 Feb 2013, 21h00 in the UK (08h00 on Wednesday morning AEST) the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Inside Health’ will include a talk on the facial reconstruction ‘of a king’ – which sounds very much like it could be “our” king, as the Richard III Society has funded a facial reconstruction of the human remains found in Leicester (more info on this, see here).
Are you ready to celebrate what we hope will be a historic event? My bottle of bubbly is in the fridge!
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