We've been enjoying viewing Robin of Sherwood which has Michael Praed in the heroic woodsman-archer-rebel role. Many people would have viewed it years ago on TV, but it's new to our eyes. It's interesting to note an element of pagan references woven into the plot, one obvious example being the appearances of Herne the Hunter. Even these-days, with the ever-growing avalanche of New Age fluff, it isn't often that a TV series or film contains references to Britain's pre-Xtian religions. And on those occasions when they do, the tendency is to trot out stereotypical superstitions and historical inaccuracies. The argument for this claims that viewers want entertainment over factual information. The result is that many people mistake fiction for fact. Viewers don't want to know that people living rough in a forest would have been crawling with lice, ticks and fleas. They don't want heroes with decaying teeth, rickets and other visual signs of life-lon