Oct 8, 2026 · 48 min · 20 segments
Henry VIII is dead and England has replaced him with a boy king. But the one really pulling the strings of power behind the young and inexperienced Edward VI is one of Tudor England’s most formidable…
Suzannah LipscombGuest
Dan SnowHost
has stirred up all sorts of religious problems that Protestants, the reforming Christians, Protestants, think that the future kind of belongs to them.
So there's going to be excitement and opportunity for everyone out there at the passing of King Henry.
Yes, everybody thinks that there's something to be corrected in terms of religion.
And those who can now declare themselves Protestant, because basically to be a Protestant under Henry was heresy, are able to push forward.
But he's certainly in with a group of Protestants who then... push forward with basically iconoclastic change you know i mean really smashing church they would have seen themselves completing
it means smashing up rude screens which are sort of beautiful wooden uh carved screens with the statues of the saints in them in churches it means smashing up windows that are stained glass on them statues of saints all of this they think is idolatrous It means removing any idea of the mass being a sacrifice, getting rid of the liturgy in Latin, which also makes redundant almost all church music overnight.
And this must have been absolutely... extraordinary for people who lived through it because it was so alienating and changed their experience of church and everyone went to church every Sunday pretty much and so this is their major community place and suddenly it's all different.
So it has a massive impact and it produces rebellions in the country when these things are introduced.
has stirred up all sorts of religious problems that Protestants, the reforming Christians, Protestants, think that the future kind of belongs to them.
So there's going to be excitement and opportunity for everyone out there at the passing of King Henry.
Yes, everybody thinks that there's something to be corrected in terms of religion.
And those who can now declare themselves Protestant, because basically to be a Protestant under Henry was heresy, are able to push forward.
But he's certainly in with a group of Protestants who then... push forward with basically iconoclastic change you know i mean really smashing church they would have seen themselves completing
it means smashing up rude screens which are sort of beautiful wooden uh carved screens with the statues of the saints in them in churches it means smashing up windows that are stained glass on them statues of saints all of this they think is idolatrous It means removing any idea of the mass being a sacrifice, getting rid of the liturgy in Latin, which also makes redundant almost all church music overnight.
And this must have been absolutely... extraordinary for people who lived through it because it was so alienating and changed their experience of church and everyone went to church every Sunday pretty much and so this is their major community place and suddenly it's all different.
So it has a massive impact and it produces rebellions in the country when these things are introduced.
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