A taste of Hun is better than none

From: The Independent - London | Date: February 14, 2008| Author: Thomas Sutcliffe tsutcliffe@independentcouk | Copyright information

Last Night's TV

ATTILA THE HUN BBC1 WONDERLAND BBC2

My spirits lifted the moment I saw the first title card in Attila the Hun, a drama-documentary about the most feared group of heavy- metal fans in world history. "Somewhere in Central Europe 440AD" it read, an irresistible combination of the clueless and the precise. Romulus, an emissary of Flavius Aetius, was on his way to offer imperial consolations for the death of Ruga, King of the Huns. You imagined him sticking his head ...

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