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Back to SearchMary, Queen of Scots: Downfall (Part 6)
Episode 589
Following the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley, how did Mary Queen of Scots - thought to have conspired for his death - navigate the most precarious situation of her young life so far? Would she m…
Published on 1 month ago
Mary, Queen of Scots: The Mystery of the Exploding Mansion (Part 5)
Episode 588
How and why was Mary Queen of Scots’ traitorous husband, Lord Darnley, murdered, and by whom…? Was Mary complicit? Why was his death one of the greatest mysteries in all British history? And, with Ma…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Mary, Queen of Scots: Murder Most Foul (Part 4)
Episode 587
Why did Mary Queen of Scots’ second marriage to the volatile Lord Darnley threaten to send Scotland into civil war? In what way did she essentially declare war upon her powerful cousin, Elizabeth I? …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Mary, Queen of Scots: The Battle for Scotland (Part 3)
Episode 586
Following the death of her husband, the King of France, was the glamorous Mary welcomed back to Scotland, her kingdom since infancy, with open arms or deep suspicion? Did she handle the precarious si…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Mary, Queen of Scots: The Royal Rivals (Part 2)
Episode 585
What was life like in the glittering French court, for the young and newly married Mary Queen of Scots? What momentous destiny was her formidable mother, Mary of Guise, planning for her? How did Mary…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Mary, Queen of Scots: Birth of a Legend (Part 1)
Episode 584
Where was Mary Queen of Scots - Elizabeth I’s most famous rival - born, and who were her parents? What was the nature of the turbulent politically and religiously divided world she was born into? How…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Lion, the Priest and the Parlourmaids: A 1930s Sex Scandal
Episode 583
Who was the Rector of Stiffkey, Harold Davidson - the "Prostitutes' Padre" - and why was he Britain’s most notorious curate? Was it his unnerving infatuation with girls that saw him put on trial and …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Body in the Woods: A Medieval Murder Mystery
Episode 582
Why was a boy grotesquely and mysteriously murdered in a wood in Norwich in the 12th century? Who was his killer? Was it a ritual child sacrifice? Why was the murder blamed on Norwich's Jewish commun…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Irish Civil War: The Killing of Michael Collins (Part 2)
Episode 581
After the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson and the signing of the polarising Anglo-Irish Treaty, how did the bombastic Battle of the Four Courts break out in Dublin? With British guns opening fire o…
Published on 2 months ago
The Irish Civil War: The Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson (Part 1)
Episode 580
Who was Sir Henry Wilson, and how was he shockingly murdered in 1922? Who ordered it? What was his attitude to the question of Irish Home Rule? Why has death been compared to the assassination of Arc…
Published on 2 months ago