I Wanna Play

[tmcg]

From the PBS Website:

"Find out if four groups of British and American soldiers, policemen and, yes, the odd polo player and archaeologist are up to the task of fighting as knights, Vikings, Roman soldiers and gladiators in WARRIOR CHALLENGE. This four-part 'hands-on-history' series challenges participants to find parallels between their modern skill sets and those necessary for success as ancient warriors -- with surprising results."

Polo player and archaeologist? But no fantasy writer? Not even a historical-fiction writer? Or an historical-fiction writer? Foo on them.

And of females I see nary a picture.

Comments

Women?

[muninnhuginn]

If this is the series we had in the UK on Channel 5 sometime last year, there were female participants. Don't recall seeing any writers. Great fun, though.

Polo player's not such a stupid starting point for teaching someone to joust in a very limited time: at least the horse handling's been covered in advance. I think there was a mounted policeman involved in that one too, but memory doesn't always serve.

Caw! (randomly flapping through)

Re: Women?

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Hey, great news! As I said, there just weren't any women in the pictures on the PBS site, which didn't bode well. I'll be very happy if there are some actually participating.

Glad you flapped through!