Will Chalk
speaker
5,182 appearances
37 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 22 Sep
Will Chalk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Of course, this tells a story of destruction and invasion, but what it also tells is a story of the fate of two nations, two peoples that are forever entwined.
There's a kind of frenemy love-hate relationship between the British and the French because we're so close, we're neighbours.
The Normans have their backs of their heads shaven to show the difference.
Curator Michael Lewis is pointing out part of one exposed panel of the tapestry to the French minister.
Do we know who made it?
But there's lots of pieces in the puzzle that I think modern science could help us with in the future.
This is an absolutely vast room, and of course it has to be, because right along the full length of it is this specially commissioned glass display case that has to hold the 70 metre long buyer tapestry.
When visitors come to see the exhibition, they'll actually start up high on a mezzanine, which means they'll be able to look down and for, I'm told...
The first time in the history of the tapestry being on display, they will be able to see the full length of it in one go.
They'll then come down.
The whole visit will only take 40 minutes and they will move along the scene by scene, this story of the Norman conquest that tells us so much about our shared history with France.
A million people are going to walk along here over the next year.
And for people who haven't got a ticket yet, don't worry, there will be more chances to apply.
You sold out.
24 hours, the first ticket sold out.
You said, don't worry, you will be able to get tickets.
But how?
We've still got hundreds of thousands of tickets to go on sale.
This is not like Glastonbury where there's like one moment you have to get your ticket and it's all over one weekend.
This is an exhibition that's going to run till next July and we're going to be selling tranches of tickets, hundreds of thousands of tickets that are going to come on sale in the autumn at the end of the year.
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