James Walton

Camp am-dram, plus stuff about the patriarchy: Channel 5’s Anne Boleyn reviewed

A wholly orthodox take on Boleyn – the genuinely iconoclastic stance would have been to portray Anne as a temptress, a witch and a traitor

Fake iconoclasm: Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn and Mark Stanley as Henry VIII in Channel 5's Anne Boleyn. Image: Viacom CBS Networks International
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