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350 Charles' Inheritance
Season 7 Episode 30
In March 1625 Charles came into his inheritance on the death of his father. Was it a poison chalice or the holy grail? What sort of man accepted the …
3 years, 5 months ago
English Revolution Poll Results and HiT Cromwell
Season 7 Episode 29
The Results of the poll - and Prize winners announced! Then HiT review of Cromwell the 970 film starring Richard Harris and Alec Guiness. Massive in …
3 years, 5 months ago
AAG 1615-1625 King of Britain
Season 7 Episode 28
The last 10 years of James' reign saw the rise of the king's great favourite the Duke of Buckingham, and continued friction with parliament - until t…
3 years, 5 months ago
349 The Country House
Season 7 Episode 27
The Elizabeth and Jacobean age was a time of social mores and the way England was ruled - and the great medieval household withered away. To leave so…
3 years, 5 months ago
348 The Great Rebuilding
Season 7 Episode 26
Somewhere in the 16th and 17th centuries, ordinary people started building differently - private buildings, public buildings. They used brick, glass,…
3 years, 6 months ago
347 The English Revolution
Season 7 Episode 25
Well this is exciting! The English Revolution. A title which is controversial, and a historiography which is bigger than the eponymous crocodile. We …
3 years, 6 months ago
Ladybird Histories and Lawrence Peach
David Perkins of King's School Canterbury joins me to talk about Ladybird, its histories, and the life of Lawrence du Garde Peach, their main author.…
3 years, 6 months ago
346 Theatre III: The Crystal Mirror
Season 7 Episode 24
Playwrights and the Sirenicals of Jacobean England, the experience of going to see the plays and the Crystal Mirror of renaissance drama.
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3 years, 7 months ago
345 Theatre II: Playwrights
Season 7 Episode 23
The University Wits was a term invented by Saintsbury for a group of 6 Elizabethan playwrights. They were not consciously a coherent group but part o…
3 years, 7 months ago
344 Theatre I The New Playhouse
Season 7 Episode 22
The first of three celebratory episodes about English Renaissance Theatre! Talking about dramatic tradition and the new playhouses that begin to appe…
3 years, 7 months ago