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318 The Nine Years' War
Season 6 Episode 53
In Ulster near the end of the 16th century, it appeared that Elizabeth could reply at least on one of her favoured Irish subjects - Hugh O'Neill, Bar…
5 years ago
317 Well Worth a Mass
Season 6 Episode 52
Henry IV of France, regarded as one of France's greatest leaders, looks for way to bring peace and unity to his divided country, while England and Sp…
5 years ago
316 The Valois Extinguished
Season 6 Episode 51
The defeat of the Armada feels in retrospect like a watershed in Elizabeth's reign; many of her closest advisers and companions died, and for the rem…
5 years ago
315b The Tilbury Speech in Film, with Sean Lang
Elizabeth has been a favourite subject for film makers; but the way her famous Tilbury Speech has been represented has been affected by the period in…
5 years, 1 month ago
315a The Trafalgar Way by Adam Preston
After the battle of Trafalgar, the news needed to be brought to London as fast as possible. This is the story of the messenger's journey
S…
5 years, 1 month ago
315 God Breathed
Season 6 Episode 50
As the Armada sailed serenely up the Channel, the English tried desperately to make some impression before it reached Flanders. But Medina Sidonia ha…
5 years, 1 month ago
314 Drake goes Bowling
Season 6 Episode 49
The Great Armada was do to sail in 1587; but Elizabeth had other ideas. By in May 1588 the Duke of Medina Sidonia led his fleet of 130 ships down the…
5 years, 2 months ago
313 England is Ours
Season 6 Episode 48
From a desk in a small suite of rooms in El Escorial Philip II ran a vast colonial empire. With France torn by civil war, war against the Dutch impro…
5 years, 2 months ago
312 My Heart is my Own
Season 6 Episode 47
By the mid 1580's Mary was at her wits' end - feeling betrayed by her son, 18 years of incarceration, beset by a unsympathetic jailer. She would list…
5 years, 2 months ago
310a Marlowe by Philip Rowe
Playwright and Wunderkind Philip Marlowe and his short life, ended as mysteriously as it was lived. Philip Rowe of the History of European Theatre po…
5 years, 3 months ago