♛ King Richard Armitage ♛

 
Mr. Armitage had intended to join in on the BBC Radio Leicester Show shortly after 5 p.m. on Sunday 3rd of February, 2013, but could not make it, as his flight was delayed.
 
So here the recording of his apology, sent to BBC Leicester via mail, kindly shared by Servetus:
 
 

 
 
In further parts of the show, Philippa Langley and David Baldwin were interviewed about King Richard III. (The interview with Philippa Langley is an excerpt of the radio report mentioned in our news of 30.12.2012 with BBC Radio Leicester. The replay will become available on BBC iPlayer in the next days.)
 
 

♛ King Richard III ♛

 
Is he or is he not…?
That is the main question today.
 
But of whom are we talking about?
 
The University of Leicester released a first picture of the skull of the male skeleton found in Leicester:
 

Skull – Richard III (Source: University of Leicester)

The skull was in good condition, although fragile, and was able to give us detailed information about this individual. It has been CT scanned at high resolution in order to allow us to investigate interesting features in as much detail as possible.
In order to determine whether this individual is Richard III we have built up a biological profile of its characteristics. We have also carefully examined the skeleton for traces of a violent death.

 
 
Now is he or is he not…?
 
We will have to wait a bit further, till 10 a.m. today, the time of the Press conference held by the University of Leicester, to finally reveal the truth about their find last September 2012 and the subsequent research.
 
 

• Daily Mail: Is this the skull of Richard III? DNA results to reveal if car park body is king, by Andy Dolan (03.02.2013) – Impatient about the results as we are.

 

• The Guardian: Richard III: unveiling day arrives for skeleton that would be king, by Maev Kennedy (03.02.2013) – Reveals that even Michael Ibsen does not know the results yet.

 

• Metro: Countdown to Richard III dig test results that ‘could rewrite history’ (03.02.2013)

 

• BBC News: Richard III dig: Mysteries remain over notorious king, by Greig Watson (03.02.2013) – Can the research by the University of Leicester beat the image created by Shakespeare?

 

• Metro: Experts show off skull of car park relic thought to be Richard III (04.02.2013)