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Oct 27, 2026
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He seemed to imply that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded.
Steve BannonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'd actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England.
Steve BannonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'd put the heads on pikes, right? I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats.
Steve BannonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You either get with the program or you're gone.
Diarmaid MacCullochGUEST
And for those interested in the Tudor period, I think that's what they'd be looking at.
Diarmaid MacCullochGUEST
They'd be looking at something which was absolutely the end of the world for Tudor people.
Diarmaid MacCullochGUEST
But they'd know about it because it also emphasizes the fact that Tudor England was also on the margins.
Diarmaid MacCullochGUEST
The modern Brits tend to exaggerate the importance of England in the 16th century.
Diarmaid MacCullochGUEST
It was very marginal.
Diarmaid MacCullochGUEST
And that would mean the low countries, but it would also mean the great ports of the Hanseatic League, which ran from northern Germany through, in fact, to Riga.
Diarmaid MacCullochGUEST
Riga was a Hanseatic port, the Hansa, the great traders of northern Europe.
Diarmaid MacCullochGUEST
So what did Tudor England have to trade with this very remote place? Well, cloth, of course.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
Mary Sidney Herbert was born on this, the 27th of October in 1561.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
Her father and mother both came from prominent families in Tudor England under Henry and Edward and Elizabeth.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
Her uncle, Robert Dudley, was famously a favorite of Queen Elizabeth.
Dan Van VoorhisHOST
Her mother, also called Mary, was a nursemaid to Queen Elizabeth when the queen was an infant and contracted smallpox.
Spencer MizenHOST
More than five centuries after he seized the English throne, took his young nephews into custody, and then rode to his doom at the Battle of Bosworth, The arguments continue to rage over his reputation, and they're showing little sign of abating.
Spencer MizenHOST
But what was Richard III really like? Was he the pitiless, scheming killer of the princes in the Tower, portrayed by William Shakespeare and others? Or was he a loyal, courageous, enlightened monarch, one who's had the misfortune to fall foul of one of history's great character assassinations? I'm Spencer Mizen, and I'm joined by Chris Skidmore, a leading historian of late medieval and early Tudor England, to discuss the controversial monarch's life and legacy.
Spencer MizenHOST
Chris is a former MP and Minister of State, and he's written a number of books on Richard III, including the forthcoming The Innocence in the Tower, An Anatomy of a Mystery.
Spencer MizenHOST
So, settle back, set your time machine for the late 15th century, and prepare to immerse yourself in one of the great dramas of British history, because this is the story of Richard III.
Mary HeimHOST
talk to you about like how little power women had.
Mary HeimHOST
In Tudor England.
Mary HeimHOST
Aren't you interested? In Tudor England.
Mary HeimHOST
Don't you want to know? He knew who he was marrying.
Mary HeimHOST
Ultimately, I just left this book with the same kind of hard won hope that I had at the end of Women of Wild Hill.
Chris HipkinsGUEST
Record numbers of people into apprenticeships.
Chris HipkinsGUEST
We introduced a New Zealand history curriculum in our schools at every level so that our kids were learning about their own history rather than Tudor England.
Chris HipkinsGUEST
And that's something that I'm very proud of.
Chris HipkinsGUEST
I think it was well overdue for us to be teaching our own history in schools.
David ClarkeHOST
And at the same time, you mentioned there about that justification.
David ClarkeHOST
I always note, if you read a lot from the Church of Ireland, there's this notion that the Church of in the early Celtic Church of Ireland, which always strike me as a bit of an anomaly, really, for a church that really finds its roots in a political problem in Tudor England that then transposes itself to Ireland.
David ClarkeHOST
But there is this search for our justification as a community and saying we are linked in to Ireland as its mystical past.
David ClarkeHOST
And you think that's something that these... writers, not originally, but later with Yeats, are explicitly trying to do.
Natalie GruenigerHOST
I love that.
Natalie GruenigerHOST
So in terms of Tudor England, when did you first become interested in it, and was there anything in particular that sparked that interest?
Jane BitomskyGUEST
Something I had to really think about, sort of a gradual exposure, I guess, to tutoring.
Jane BitomskyGUEST
The earliest memory I can think of is reading The Other Bowling Girl as a teenager and just sort of seething with rage towards Henry VIII.
Jane BitomskyGUEST
And then when I went to university, my undergraduate history degree had lots of, at the University of Queensland, had lots of amazing courses, one of which was early modern witch hunts.
Jane BitomskyGUEST
I loved, you know, looking at history, there's witches, superstitions, all these interesting things happening and there's plagues, you know, monstrous births, infanticide, neonaticide.
Jane BitomskyGUEST
So there's lots of huge personalities in Tudor England and lots of strange topics that sort of really captured my interest.
Jane BitomskyGUEST
And I also lived in Bramley, England as a teenager for a few years.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
It's thought that up to 20,000 Spanish sailors and soldiers died and the failed invasion has gone down in history as one of the worst ever naval disasters.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
However, it was a celebrated victory for Elizabeth and one that defined England as one of the most powerful nations of the Tudor Age.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
When the queen died in 1603, the age of the absolute rule of the monarch died with her because a new power was emerging in London that rejected the king or queen's divine right to rule.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
This is the Palace of Westminster.
Ben HendersonHOST
Chapter one, The Empire Bites Back.
Ben HendersonHOST
So, Alice, we're going to start in the year 1598 in Tudor England, more specifically the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
Ben HendersonHOST
Now, we're starting with a German lawyer, and he's visiting England.
Ben HendersonHOST
His name is Paul Hensner.
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