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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 definit...
Passion, scandal, and power collided in the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. Rumours of secret trysts between...
What if Henry VIII’s “discarded bride” actually showed real promise as queen? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr James Taffe to dis...
How did a condemned Spanish Armada captain survive shipwreck, betrayal, and war to leave behind one of the most extraordinary first-person a...
What was Anne Boleyn like before she became the most controversial queen in English history? Can the rooms and gardens at her childhood home...
How did a woman rise to power, and keep it, in the fiercely male-dominated Habsburg Empire? From her distrust of the Enlightenment to her re...
How did England’s earliest travellers to India try to win favour in a Mughal golden age that scarcely noticed them? Professor Suzannah Lipsc...
What if becoming queen was the worst thing that could happen to you? What if the crown became your death sentence? Professor Suzannah Lipsco...
She cut off her hair to sail the seas. She divorced her husband by locking him out of his own castle. And when her son was killed by the occ...
Why were Shakespeare’s greatest heroines played by teenage boys? How did they learn their craft? On the Elizabethan stage, highly trained yo...
What happens when a fleeing armada meets an unforgiving coast? Shipwreck, slaughter and survival collide as Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and...
Assassination plots, Venetian stand‑offs and a diplomat in disguise: how did one maverick change the course of history? Professor Suzannah L...
Was Captain William Kidd a ruthless pirate or a pawn in a royal gamble gone wrong? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Debbie Kilroy trace his m...
Who had a stronger claim to the English throne than Henry VII? When Henry Tudor took the crown on the battlefield at Bosworth, his hereditar...
Was there really a 17th century Italian woman who helped hundreds of wives murder their husbands, or is her story a myth born of fear and go...
Who wanted Elizabeth I dead, and how close did they come to removing her? Who were the conspirators and rebels who plotted to put Mary, Quee...
Warning: This episode contains references to sexual abuse What became of the women whose worlds collapsed when the Spanish arrived in Mesoam...
Who would rule Britain after the childless Queen Anne died in 1714? Why was a distant German Protestant dynasty chosen over closer claimants...
Was Henry Tudor a tyrant obsessed with control, or a visionary who created peace and prosperity? How did a penniless exile with a tenuous cl...
Has history been unfair to Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch? Was she weak and easily led, or one of Britain’s most determined and underes...
In the mist‑shrouded Highlands, a quiet minister dared to trespass into forbidden realms. Convinced that fairies were not mere fables but a...
What does it take to rule as an equal in a man's world? How did a quiet, devout queen help reshape Britain’s monarchy forever? All this mont...
This episode contains discussions of sexual assault, violence and child abuse. Listener discretion is advised. How did the mob lynching of a...
A king with unyielding faith. A nation on the brink. A crown lost to revolution. King James II is often dismissed as the unfortunate monarch...
Was Henry VIII's fifth wife a promiscuous teenager and then heartless adulteress and schemer? Celebrated, scrutinised, and endlessly talked...
From clinging to a tree while evading capture, his face blackened with soot, to triumphantly sailing home to reclaim his crown — the story o...
After the execution of King Charles I, England became a Republic for the only time in its history. Yet why was this revolutionary moment so...
Was Mary Tudor truly “Bloody Mary”? Has England’s first reigning queen been misunderstood for centuries? Determined to restore Roman Catholi...
What impact did the Tudors have on Ireland, not just in the councils of kings and earls, but in the rhythms of ordinary life? What were the...
Why was a Portuguese-born Jewish doctor, who rose to become Elizabeth I’s chief physician, brutally executed for treason in a scandal that s...
Could one of art’s greatest mysteries at last be solved? Who was the luminous girl with a pearl earring in Vermeer's iconic painting? Profes...
The Pilgrimage of Grace sounds calm, but was in reality a major uprising in the north of England against Henry VIII’s religious and politica...
How much do we really know about William Shakespeare, his wife Anne Hathaway, and the family tragedies that may have shaped the bard's great...
This episode contains discussions of incest and sexual assault. Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by historical novelist Elizabeth Frema...
What happens when a Queen refuses to name her heir? How does she hold her kingdom together when every courtier is secretly preparing for her...
Was Christopher Marlowe a rebel, a genius, or a heretic ahead of his time? From his plays that shocked Elizabethan England to his brutal mur...
In the early modern period, belief in fairies was quite commonplace. But put all thoughts of Tinkerbell aside! Professor Suzannah Lipscomb i...
Why are diamonds black, and how does a triangle show power in Tudor portraits? From Henry VII’s shrewd statecraft to the glittering reign of...
The unsolved mystery of what happened to the Princes in the Tower - Edward V and Richard, Duke of York - is possibly English history’s great...
In 1647 Christmas vanished by the decree of the Puritans who ruled Britain. But not everyone complied. Families lit candles behind closed do...
In this special episode, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb fields questions about the Tudors and their time that have all been suggested by you. F...
450 years ago, Venice found itself facing a plague outbreak that would kill more than 50,000 people - a third of its population. But to mana...
What if the most powerful woman in Anne Boleyn’s story never spoke on the record? Elizabeth Boleyn steps out of the shadows in this revelato...
**Contains descriptions of war atrocities, including rape and infanticide** In 1544, Henry VIII led the largest army ever raised by an Engli...
Throughout history, the words of poets have often ignited change or unsettled those in power. In England particularly, poetry has both celeb...
**Contains story of a young male suicide** Out of the devastation of the English Civil Wars, a radical new religious movement was born. The...
Step into the turbulent heart of the Wars of the Roses and meet one of history’s most formidable survivors: Lady Margaret Beaufort. A child...
Free speech is today more contested than ever before. In many places, differing views about politics, sex, and religion are suppressed and p...
What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke? In the 1580s Sir Walter Raleigh set about establishing a permanent English colony on Roanoke Is...
**Contains accounts of murder and sexual violence** After an explosion rocked Edinburgh in February 1567, Lord Darnley - husband to Mary, Qu...
Henry VIII’s commanding gaze, Thomas More’s intellect, Anne of Cleves’ cautious poise; Hans Holbein’s portraits didn’t just depict the Tudor...