![]() I thoroughly enjoyed watching it and would recommend it to others.I hope you find my review helpful. But The Real Da Vinci Code summarises many of their ideas and themes and is a good starting point if viewers wish to seek out further details surrounding this highly fascinating story, whether conspiracy or not.Top marks to Tony Robinson for this programme. The books are also good and provide much follow up material. And unlike some of the literature surrounding these ideas, The Real Da Vinci Code, with Robinson’s clear and uncomplicated presentation, makes the whole story easy to follow and fascinating viewing.No matter what your view is of conspiracy theories and secret societies, this DVD is very good. I have read somewhere that he is a little hard on the ‘conspirators’ but I felt the programme fairly well-balanced overall. Indeed, The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail provided the impetus for many imitators-similar-type books around the same themes, not least the best selling book The Da Vinci Code.So it was fascinating coming to this DVD where Tony Robinson looks into the whole episode, starting with Lincoln’s book before moving through many of the other claims that other authors and researchers have made concerning this so-called ‘conspiracy’.In my view, Tony Robinson does it well. ![]() Puzzles that had been hidden by the Church and others who didn’t want the secret revealed. ![]() A fascinating story to say the least.Lincoln’s book was a classic type of detective story, as Lincoln and his team of co-authors attempted to decode some fascinating puzzles. And only a handful of people knew about this and that the information was to be kept secret. It was a controversial book and aroused the religious community with its message that Jesus may not have been as described in the New Testament.The book claimed that there was a whole conspiracy surrounding Jesus. When The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail came out in 1982, I remember catching a few programmes on TV at the time discussing its content. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2019 ![]()
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