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Henry VIII's Wives on Stage: Six - The Musical
Episode 63
Since its first outing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017, the stage musical Six has become a worldwide theatre sensation. In it, the six wives…
4 years, 9 months ago
Did Thomas Seymour Groom Elizabeth Tudor?
Episode 62
In 1547, the 14-year-old future Queen Elizabeth I is living with her step-mother Queen Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour, uncle to El…
4 years, 9 months ago
Oliver Cromwell
Episode 61
Oliver Cromwell - the only commoner to have become Britain's head of state - has puzzled biographers for centuries. He was a complex character, coura…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Last Witches in England
Episode 60
In 1682, three impoverished women from Bideford in Devon were hanged, becoming the last people to be executed for witchcraft in England. The evidence…
4 years, 10 months ago
England: Devil-Land 1588-1688
Episode 59
In the 17th century, England was known as "Devil-Land" - a diabolical country torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collap…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ottoman Empire in the Renaissance
Episode 58
The Ottoman Empire has long been seen as the Islamic-Asian opposite of the Christian-European West. But the reality was very different: the Ottomans …
4 years, 10 months ago
Singing the News in Tudor England
Episode 57
In an age before newspapers and mass media, how did the general public keep abreast of what was going on? How did they find out about the seismic cha…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Episode 56
In the Vatican Library, there survive 17 highly personal love letters, written in King Henry VIII's own hand to Anne Boleyn between 1527 and 1528. Ho…
4 years, 10 months ago
Witches & Puritans
Episode 55
On a remote Massachusetts plantation in 1651, an unpopular local brickmaker was blamed for a wave of animal ailments, children dying and vanishing pr…
4 years, 10 months ago
Massacre of the Huguenots
Episode 54
The royal wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre on 18 August 1572, was designed to reconcile France’s Catholics and Protestants - or H…
4 years, 10 months ago