Tumanbay Archives

What to replace that shiny-shiny Game Of Thrones hole in your heart? Especially in a time of interminable lockdown? How many more times can you watch Witcher or Kingdom before realising that they just don't do it? Today sees the BBC launch possibly the best alternative around right now, the fourth series of historical fantasy[...]

Tumanbay has its finale this week, ending on a cliffhanger in ways similar to how season one of Game of Thrones did This is probably BBC Radio's most ambitious historical radio drama series for years, and it's apparent there will be a season two at some point down the line Spies, assassins, plague, an invading[...]

Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4's answer to Game of Thrones, has hit its ninth episode this week War looms as an invasion of the empire is now unstoppable as the huge cast of characters go about their business, pursuing their agendas, with mystics, prophecies and betrayals abound. Alexander Siddig has played Dr Julian Bashir on Star Trek: Deep[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes… Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4's epic 10-part historical thriller heads towards its final stretch with the 8th episode this week. Here we have mini-interviews with Olivia Popica, who plays Heaven, the daughter of a trader who has been taken hostage by the nameless Slave from a plague-ridden ship as he makes his way towards Tumanbay[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4's epic historical drama reached episode seven out of its ten-week run this week. This week, we interview Rufus Wright, who plays Gregor, the Sultan's spymaster charged with rooting out traitors and spies who would seek to bring down the empire Gregor's progress set one of the main threads of the[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes… Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4's epic historical drama reached episode six, past the midway point of its ten-week run this week Things heat up in and out of the palace as threats against the empire loom There's been an assassination The spymaster is under pressure to find the traitors There's a war brewing[...]

These are the types of dramas the BBC has always been the world leader at producing. Now comes what may be Goldhawk's most ambitious production: Tumanbay is an epic ten-part series set in the lesser-known Mamluk slave-dynasty of Egypt It follows the Master of the Palace Guard charged with rooting out a rebellion insurgence and crushing[...]