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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, 11 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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4 years 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…
4 years 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…
4 years ago
The Battle for Canada by Greg Kobel
In 1775 American Rebels occupied Montreal, as the first step to plucking the ripe fruit of British North America and adding it to the portfolio of th…
4 years, 1 month ago
343 As He Lived in Peace
Season 7 Episode 21
While The Buck and Baby Charles warmed themselves on the unfamiliar fires of popularity in their search for war, James was fading. At Theobalds in Ma…
4 years, 1 month ago
342 Spanish Mismatch
Season 7 Episode 20
The identity of Mr Wiat's mysterious traveler is revealed, and London goes potty. Buckingham is confirmed as the Prince's favourite as well as the ki…
4 years, 1 month ago
Rights and Commons with the Open Spaces Society
Kate Ashbrook of the Open Spaces Society & I talk about the extensive networks of rights of way over private land in England and Wales, and some rema…
4 years, 2 months ago
341 Knights Adventurer
Season 7 Episode 19
In March 1623 Simon Digby noticed two suspicious looking blokes with dodgy beards hanging around outside his uncle's house in Madrid. He rushed over …
4 years, 2 months ago
340 Ancient Birthright
Season 7 Episode 18
In 1621 James tried to tread a narrow path to peace in Europe - through the instrument of a Marriage between the England and Spanish royal families. …
4 years, 2 months ago