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The Glencoe Massacre
Episode 87
In the early hours of 13 February 1692, in the rugged and beautiful mountains of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands, some 30 members and associates of…
4 years, 2 months ago
Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen
Episode 86
Kateryn Parr - as she herself wrote her name - is often portrayed as a colourless, prudish figure, known mainly for surviving her marriage to King He…
4 years, 3 months ago
Travel in the Ming Dynasty
Episode 85
Around the same time as the Mayflower was landing at Cape Cod, on the other side of the world tourism was thriving in China, giving rise to a fascina…
4 years, 3 months ago
Edward VI: The Last Boy King
Episode 84
Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, became King of England at the age of nine. All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use him to further their own…
4 years, 3 months ago
Introducing: On Jimmy's Farm
Join celebrity farmer, ecologist and conservationist, Jimmy Doherty, on his farm as he talks to eco-experts and well-known faces about trying to live…
4 years, 3 months ago
Antwerp: Renaissance Europe's Dazzling Sea Port
Episode 83
Antwerp during the Renaissance was as sensational as nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York. For half the sixteenth century, it was t…
4 years, 3 months ago
Death of Henry VIII
Episode 82
475 years ago, on 28 January 1547, King Henry VIII died at the age of 55. Just hours before his passing, his last will and testament had been read, s…
4 years, 3 months ago
Henry VIII & Jousting
Episode 81
In the world of King Henry VIII, the paramount place to demonstrate physical strength and manly courage was the joust - and Henry excelled at it.
In t…
4 years, 3 months ago
Kate Mosse: Writing Historical Fiction
Episode 80
Kate Mosse is the multimillion-selling author of the Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel. With her new novel The City of Tears, the …
4 years, 3 months ago
Cardinal Wolsey
Episode 79
No advisor was more important to King Henry VIII than Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. He captured Henry's attention with his brilliance and became his most t…
4 years, 3 months ago