In the first of five daily programmes this week, Dr Christopher Haigh , one of Britain's leading historians of Elizabethan society, goes in search of the connections between Elizabethans of the 16th and 21st centuries.
1: Monarchy. Dr Haigh, Elizabeth I's biographer, asks Douglas Hurd , Bernard Ingham and Ben Pimlott to compare theirexperiences with those of their Elizabethan predecessors, producer Phiiipseiiars Elizabethans past and present: page 123 The Regina monologues: page 35