Learning from the unenlightened

Inside the medieval mind BBC4, 9pm Eastenders BBC1, 7.30pm Have you ever wondered what period of history you'd go back to if you could travel through time? The year 1914 has to be in the running. If a time-traveller had rugby-tackled Archduke Franz Ferdinand out of the line of fire in Sarajevo, there's an outside chance the phrase "world war" would never have been coined.