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Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.
Each episode Suzannah is joined by historians and experts to reveal incredible stories about one of the most fascinating periods in history, new releases every Wednesday and Sunday.
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- How to Survive the Reformation · 1 t. 4 min. · Episode 582What would you feel if the religion and rituals you'd followed all your life suddenly became illegal? How did people from all strata of society adapt when their sacred spaces…
- Rise & Fall of an Elizabethan Pirate · 42 min. · Episode 581How did a celebrated maritime hero end up betrayed, mutinied against, and dead at sea? As the second Englishman to sail around the world, backed by powerful figures like Sir…
- The Gunpowder Plot · 57 min. · Episode 580**Contains descriptions of torture** The Gunpowder Plot is one of the hinge events of British history - an act of terror the roots of which stretch back to the Tudor period and…
- True Crime: Assassination of Henry IV of France · 36 min. · Episode 579Was the shocking assassination of King Henri IV of France in 1610 the act of a lone fanatic, or a sinister conspiracy within the royal court? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is…
- Witchfinder General · 36 min. · Episode 578In the aftermath of the Civil War, a remote corner of Essex witnessed the most brutally devastating witch-hunt in English history. A dangerous maverick Matthew Hopkins - the…
- How Persia Influenced Elizabeth I · 47 min. · Episode 577Could an ancient Persian drama have stopped Mary, Queen of Scots from being executed? When Queen Elizabeth I faced an agonising dilemma over her captive cousin, a performance…
- Thomas, Oliver and the Cromwell Dynasty · 53 min. · Episode 576From Thomas Cromwell's rise under Henry VIII to Oliver Cromwell’s rule as Lord Protector, how did the faith, ambition, and power of one family shape the course of British…
- Gulliver's Travels · 54 min. · Episode 575Is Gulliver’s Travels just a whimsical children’s adventure story, or is it a scathing satire designed to expose political hypocrisy? From suppressed Irish resistance allegories…
- Dark Origins of Fairy Tales · 35 min. · Episode 574What if the fairy tales you grew up with were never meant for children at all? Long before these stories were transformed into family-friendly animated films, they were forged in…
- How to Survive Henry VIII · 55 min. · Episode 573How did one man survive serving Henry VIII as principal secretary when others lost their heads? Why is the mastermind behind the King’s final, most turbulent decade so often…
- Britain's Slave Traders · 53 min. · Episode 572How did a risky 16th-century venture evolve into a national enterprise that fuelled the rise of the British Empire? How did a vast network of royalty, politicians, cultural…
- John Dudley, The 'Wicked' Duke · 45 min. · Episode 571How did the son of an executed traitor rise to become the power behind young Edward VI? Was John Dudley a visionary patriot saving England from crisis or a ruthless opportunist…
- How the Americas Transformed Tudor England · 58 min. · Episode 570In 1588, mathematician Thomas Harriot mapped a doomed colony and drafted the playbook for English empire. But did Indigenous culture reshape Shakespeare's England just as…
- Earl of Essex: Rise & Fall of Elizabeth I's Favourite · 43 min. · Episode 569How did a favourite of Elizabeth I go from royal darling to executed traitor? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr. Alex Gajda and Dr. Will Tosh to explore the meteoric…
- Dutch Armada: The Last Invasion of England · 55 min. · Episode 568Why did the Dutch Republic risk everything to launch one of the boldest seaborne invasions in English history and overthrow King James II? Why did England’s defences collapse so…
- Royal Favourites: The Filthy Earl of Rochester · 50 min. · Episode 567**CONTAINS VERY STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES** What really went on behind closed doors in the scandalous court of the "Merry Monarch"? What made John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of…
- The Rotten End of Henry VIII · 55 min. · Episode 566Death, death, and more death surrounds Henry VIII's final years. What happens when a monarch is trapped by physical decay, paranoia, and lethal court factionalism? He may have…
- Henry VIII's Reign of Terror · 51 min. · Episode 565**Contains graphic description of execution** What happened when one monarch's personal obsession dismantled an entire international order? How did Henry VIII transform a…
- Quest for an Heir: Henry VIII, Aragon and Boleyn · 52 min. · Episode 564In the 1520s, a dynastic crisis loomed behind the brilliance of Henry VIII's court. Desperate for a male heir after Catherine of Aragon's string of tragic pregnancies, Henry's…
- Henry VIII: From Cradle to Crown · 51 min. · Episode 563How did a dazzling young Tudor prince become one of history's most notorious kings? How much of Henry VIII’s later tyranny was shaped by the world into which he was born? Long…
- How to Survive as a Tudor Peasant · 41 min. · Episode 562What was everyday life like for an ordinary person in Tudor times? How did dramatic changes in population, climate, disease and the economy reshape villages across England?…
- Young Elizabeth I: Princess & Prisoner · 49 min. · Episode 561How did a child written off by the Tudor court rise to become one of England's most iconic monarchs? Before she became queen, Elizabeth Tudor was surrounded by scandal, suspicion…
- Captain Cook: The Voyage that Changed the World · 49 min. · Episode 560How did Captain James Cook's scientific voyage of 1768 become a mission for the British empire? While expanding knowledge of Pacific geography and natural history, Captain Cook…
- Manhattan’s Most Notorious Couple · 43 min. · Episode 559Who were the scandalous, defiant couple on the margins of Dutch society who became part of the founding story of New York? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Professor Alan…
- James V: Scotland's Ambitious Renaissance King · 1 t. 1 min. · Episode 558Was James V of Scotland a beleaguered child king or a brilliant Renaissance ruler who mastered the performance of power? Crowned before his second birthday, James curbed powerful…
- True Crime: Mass Murderering Artist Cellini · 48 min. · Episode 557How did a murderous, swaggering, wildly unreliable goldsmith become one of the most celebrated artists of the 16th century? Does genius excuse monstrous behaviour? Benvenuto…
- C.S. Lewis & Narnia: Renaissance Origins · 41 min. · Episode 556Why does C.S. Lewis's Narnia - with its images of winter, sacrifice, kingship and renewal - continue to resonate with generations of readers? How did Lewis weave Renaissance…
- The Star Chamber: Murder, Witch & Libel Trials · 41 min. · Episode 555What really happened inside England’s most feared court? Was the Star Chamber a sinister instrument of royal tyranny, or a vital route to justice for those ignored by ordinary…
- William Cecil: The Power Behind Elizabeth I · 39 min. · Episode 554Who really ruled Elizabethan England? For almost four decades, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, guided Queen Elizabeth I through religious turmoil, assassination plots, the…
- Witnesses to the French Revolution · 53 min. · Episode 553What was the French Revolution like for those who lived through it? What can private journals reveal that speeches, pamphlets and official records cannot? From the storming of…
- New Discovery: Who Really Wrote Elizabeth I's Letters? · 44 min. · Episode 552Was Elizabeth I really as angry and bad tempered as history has always claimed? How did some of her most secret state letters come to be penned by a Spaniard, while England was…
- Robespierre & Revolutionary Terror · 1 t. 7 min. · Episode 551How did the French Revolution, built on liberty, become ruled by fear? And how did Robespierre - the man who had sent kings, nobles and priests to their deaths - himself end up…
- How Protestants Justified Slavery · 53 min. · Episode 550Was the Protestant Reformation ever truly global? How did radical theology, empire, slavery and missionary ambition collide across the early modern world? The global spread of…
- French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille · 55 min. · Episode 549What drove a hungry city to storm a fortress? How did the fall of the Bastille become the defining symbol of the French Revolution? In this second episode of our series…
- True Crime: Murder & the Popish Plot · 43 min. · Episode 548Was a London magistrate, found dead in a ditch in 1678, the victim of a Catholic conspiracy, political convenience, or secrets too dangerous to survive? Why did Edmund Berry…
- Who Lit the French Revolution? · 54 min. · Episode 547How did a kingdom of palaces, privilege and powdered wigs collapse into revolution? What turned hunger into uprising? In this first episode of our series on the French…
- Bess of Hardwick: Elizabethan England's Richest Woman · 45 min. · Episode 546How did a Derbyshire gentlewoman become England’s richest woman after Elizabeth I? Why does she still fascinate us as her 500th anniversary approaches? From four marriages and…
- Edmund Halley & His Comet · 57 min. · Episode 545How did our understanding of the universe begin in a London coffee house? How did a man who had a comet named after him change science forever? From his youthful voyage to St…
- The Mayflower and its Pilgrims · 48 min. · Episode 544Why did the Pilgrims risk everything in search of a new life and religious freedom? Why does their contested history still matter ahead of the 250th anniversary of American…
- Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism · 57 min. · Episode 543**This episode contains graphic explorations of starvation and cannibalism** What happens when a colony reaches the edge of survival? In this third episode leading up to the…
- True Crime: Moll Cutpurse - London's Cross-Dressing Criminal · 48 min. · Episode 542How did one woman scandalise sixteenth century London by refusing to live by its rules? Mary Frith - aka Moll Cutpurse - rejected the expectations of respectable womanhood, wore…
- Pocahontas & the Virginian Venture · 58 min. · Episode 541How did the Stuarts turn fragile American outposts into an empire? How did English settlers, Native peoples - including Pocahontas - and London investors shape 17th-century…
- How Guns Changed the World · 47 min. · Episode 540How did the gun become a fashion item in Renaissance Italy? Why do debates over firearms, self-defence and public safety sound so familiar today? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and…
- Elizabethans in America · 59 min. · Episode 539How did two Indigenous men help shape Elizabethan England's dreams of empire? What do these early encounters tell us about the contested beginnings of colonial America? In the…
- Great Plague of London · 55 min. · Episode 538What effect did the Great Plague have on Londoners, their society and the wider state? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Rebecca Rideal revisit the summer of 1665, as a few…
- Anne Boleyn: Ambition or Faith? · 47 min. · Episode 537Was Anne Boleyn a seductress, a schemer, or something far more radical? What happens when we look at Anne not through the lens of sex and scandal, but through religion? From…
- Rise & Fall of James IV of Scotland · 57 min. · Episode 536How did a teenage rebel become Scotland’s king, and rule a realm riven by feuds and shifting loyalties? James IV balanced chivalry, diplomacy, and danger, yet led his country to…
- True Crime: Medici Murder at the Louvre · 52 min. · Episode 535**Warning: Contains graphic description of the mutilation of corpses** In April 1617, Concino Concini, Marshal of France, was shot dead as he entered the Louvre. But his murder…
- The Tudors Abroad · 56 min. · Episode 534What did it mean to be English when merchants, sailors, captives, diplomats, and migrants were constantly crossing borders? Pirates, a Kentish man becoming a Samurai and a king…
- Royal Favourites: Hatton, Elizabeth I's Favourite · 41 min. · Episode 533How did Sir Christopher Hatton became one of Elizabeth I’s favourites? How true were the rumours that they were lovers? After catching the Queen's eye in 1561, Hatton was quickly…
