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Join us, Michelle and Lucy, for a mildly diverting delve into the great, the good, the mad, the brave, the outrageous, the mischievous and the truly preposterous folk of the Tudor Age. Two enthusiastic Tudorphiles discuss each in turn and give them marks out of ten for intrigue, martyrdom, posterity and rise & fall before deciding whether they are Tudorlicious.
Episodes
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
S1 - 042 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, Part Two
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
The men in her life keep letting Margaret down. Will her son be any different? We'll see.
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
S1 - 041 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, Part One
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Poor Margaret. James didn't want her, Husband Number Two didn't want her. We see her go from a frivolous, spoilt, young princess to a mother fighting to keep her son. An epic story.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Cameo 21 - Martin Schwartz
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Mercenary captain. A scary, drunken, jewel-encrusted man..... And he has his own song!
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Le Morte d’Arthur
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
We look at chivalry mediaeval-style - before it became sanitised and ritualistic - through the pages of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. It was not at all the book we were expecting!
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Cameo 20 Sir Christopher Urswick
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
A protégé of Margaret Beaufort, a man of many talents, but the highlight of his life was three glorious days spent in Hertfordshire.
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
The Horrifying Tale of Richard Hunne
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
For Hallowe'en this year we present for your delectation a story of bishops behaving badly ..... very badly!
There are a couple of moments in this episode when you might want to stick your fingers in your ears, but we do warn you in advance.
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Cameo 19b - Sir John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester - Part Two
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
553 years and a day Sir John Tiptoft was executed. Why?
Warning: this episode includes some discussion on the best way to impale people.
Ah, we might have just given away why he was executed!
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Cameo 19a - John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Humanist, classicist, intellectual, orator, music-lover.
So how did he become the most hated man in England?
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
S1 - 040 William Caxton
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
Plotter, kidnapper, smuggler and, oh there was something else. What was it now?
In the episode we mention finding out about the history of punctuation. Here's a link to an episode of the very wonderful podcast History of the English Language. https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2021/07/29/episode-150-a-capital-offense/
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Cameo 18 - Sir Richard Edgecombe
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Another of Henry VII's right-hand men who tried their hands at absolutely everything.
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
S1 - 039 Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Two things I knew about this man. He didn't move at Bosworth and he died horribly.
Find out why...and how.
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Cameo 17 - Margaret Kebell
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
A short history of the abduction of women and of Margaret and her mum who said No!
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Relics
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
In our continued futile attempt to get inside the heads of people living in the Tudor era, we look at the why relics were so revered for so long....and how it all came to an end - at least in Protestant England.
Warning: It can all get a bit grisly!
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Cameo 16 - Catalina of Motril
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Tuesday Aug 08, 2023
Enslaved in Grenada, given to Catherine of Aragon....but was she a slave when she got to England?
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
S1 - 038 Dr. Rodrigo de Puebla - Part Two
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Would they have ganged up on him if he hadn't been Jewish? Did Katherine ever realise all that he'd done for her? What about that posthumous document?
We gave Tudorlicious to de Ayala....should we have done? Should we give it to de Puebla? Go to Episode Information – Tudoriferous (wordpress.com) to have your say.
Still no picture of de Puebla, so here's a picture of a young Catherine of Aragon.