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228 Mistress Anne Boleyn, Scandal of Christendom
Season 5 Episode 33
The start of 4 weeks of fun, debate, voting and prizes as we consider the life of Anne Boleyn and decide whether Catherine was being fair in describi…
8 years, 3 months ago
227 The Reformation Parliament
Season 5 Episode 32
After Wolsey's fall was a period of stalemate; but between 1529 and 1532, Henry's thoughts crystalised, Anne became to be openly at his side - and a …
8 years, 3 months ago
226 The Great Wether
Season 5 Episode 31
In 1529 the campaign for the King's great matter, his divorce came to a climax. Wolsey persuaded the Pope to allow a court to be held in England unde…
8 years, 3 months ago
225 Matters Great and Personal
Season 5 Episode 30
The king's Great Matter as it was to be called, outraged and divided Christendom, and has been dividing us ever since. What motivated it? Who was res…
8 years, 4 months ago
224 Deadly Poison
Season 5 Episode 29
In 1520 the Pope threatened an obscure Augustinian monk with excommunication. Why ? What happened next? And how did the English react?
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8 years, 4 months ago
223 Venal or Vital?
Season 5 Episode 28
The traditional story of the English Reformation has been of a rotten, moribund, venal church, just waiting to be toppled by reformers, the pyre igni…
8 years, 4 months ago
222 From Hapsburg to Valois
Season 5 Episode 27
The diplomacy of the early 1520s culminated at Pavia, with the ruin of French hopes - and also English as Hapsburg for a while reigned supreme. Domes…
8 years, 5 months ago
221 The Finest Buck
Season 5 Episode 26
Henry had shown a hint of the man he would become in 1510 by the execution of Empson and Dudley. In 1521, the Duke of Buckingham was in his sights, a…
8 years, 5 months ago
220 Disguisings
Season 5 Episode 25
It is in the reign of Henry VIII that we first hear of the 'masque' - entertainment that drew from Mummers, Mystery plays, and 'disguisings'. We talk…
8 years, 5 months ago
219 Cloth of Gold
Season 5 Episode 24
Enter Thomas Boleyn, courtier, and the realities of being a courtier. And the field of the cloth of Gold; Henry and Wolsey's mission to uphold the tr…
8 years, 5 months ago