Article: Eliza best I; With an all-star cast including Dame Helen Mirren, Channel Four' s new epic places you at the heart of history.(Features)

Byline: By Graham Keal

THOSE who stepped on to the set of Channel 4's new period drama Elizabeth I say it was like stepping into a time machine. The director of the two-parter about the life of Queen Elizabeth I, played by Helen Mirren, wanted to take the viewer on a "virtual reality tour of the past".

And it looks like he may have achieved just that.

With a rumoured pounds 5.5 million budget for the programme, the palace set was built to the same scale and ground plan as the original.

When TV history man David Starkey went to see it he ...

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