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Join us, Michelle, Lucy and David, 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. Three 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.
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3 days ago
3 days ago
What do you do when a regency ends? You recreate it in miniature in Bourbon, and you educate all the noble young women to follow in your footsteps....whether they like it or not!
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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 022 - Louis XII of France | Tudoriferous
Anne of Brittany, Twice Crowned Queen of France Part 2 | Patreon
Music by Maksym Malko from Pixabay
Friday May 01, 2026
Friday May 01, 2026
We're in The Mad War. Breton rebels are seeking sanctuary in France; French rebels are seeking sanctuary in Brittany.....and the King is trying to get himself kidnapped just to get away from his sister.
Music by Viacheslav Starostin from Pixabay
Music by Geoffrey Burch from Pixabay
See the cast of characters on Episode Information – Tudoriferous
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Relevant Episodes S1 - 035 Charles VIII of France, Part One | Tudoriferous
Friday Apr 24, 2026
Friday Apr 24, 2026
The least foolish woman in France.
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Relevant Episodes S1 - 035 Charles VIII of France, Part One | Tudoriferous
Friday Apr 17, 2026
Friday Apr 17, 2026
We've been promising to do her since pretty much the beginning of the podcast......and finally, here she is.
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Friday Apr 10, 2026
Friday Apr 10, 2026
It turns out that our own beloved C3PO was not as squeaky clean as we'd thought.
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Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Wait... who?
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Saturday Mar 28, 2026
Saturday Mar 28, 2026
In our first ever special guest episode, John from the Prime Time: Prime Ministers podcast tells us all about Parliament in the reign of Henry VII.
Why was parliament so full of marriage councelors? What do Eleanor of Provence and Liz Truss have in common? What did the members of the House of Commons have to fear from hordes of hungry monks? And why did Penny Mordaunt give a long parliamentary speech about chickens? You might need to cover any young listeners' ears for that one...
Find the Prime Time - Prime Ministers Podcast here: https://shows.acast.com/prime-time, and in all of the usual podcatchers.
John kindly shared his Bibliography for his research, which you can find here - Episode Information – Tudoriferous
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Saturday Mar 21, 2026
Saturday Mar 21, 2026
It's that strange aberration for the period.....a good pope.
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Relevant Episodes - Cameo 65 - Pope Sixtus IV | Tudoriferous
S1 - 047 Pope Innocent VIII - Part One | Tudoriferous
S1 - 040 - Pope Julius II - Part Two | Tudoriferous
Cameo 29 - Silvestro Gigli | Tudoriferous
Cameo 28 - Giovanni Gigli | Tudoriferous
Saturday Mar 14, 2026
Saturday Mar 14, 2026
What a nice man! Scholar, Franciscan. Lovely.
So what happened when he became Pope....and can we blame THE NEPHEWS?
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Relevant Episodes - Cameo 66 - Pope Pius III | Tudoriferous
Saturday Mar 07, 2026
Saturday Mar 07, 2026
We don't have to wait for Walsingham to find out about spies. Edward IV and Henry VII both had their spy networks. But who were they, what did they do and what happened when they got caught?
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Relevant Episodes - Cameo 10 - Roger Machado | Tudoriferous
Saturday Feb 28, 2026
Saturday Feb 28, 2026
Notary, priest, right-hand man to Cardinal Archbishop Morton... and the first known English playwright (technically). Not bad for a lad from Southwark, especially compared to his brother.
Join us for truly hellish theatrical reviews, philosophical vices, unexpected feminism, and the most metatheatrical play you're likely to find before the 20th century...
You can find a full bibliography on our website - Episode Information – Tudoriferous
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Mid-episode Transition Music: "Folk Round" by Kevin MacLeod from https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html
Friday Feb 20, 2026
Friday Feb 20, 2026
Everyone has heard of Shakespeare, but what was going on in the world of drama a century before the height of the Elizabethan Stage?
What could the subjects of Henry VII go and see? Why might Ali from the Rex Factor podcast have another reason to dislike St Dunstan? How did community theatre traumatise at least two kings? Who were the most dramatic monks? And which demon should you watch out for if you start to nod off in church?
The show is about to start, so grab your anachronistic popcorn and get ready...
You can find images and a full bibliography on our website - Episode Information – Tudoriferous
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Saturday Feb 14, 2026
Saturday Feb 14, 2026
This is the story of Pier and Bianca. You can see examples of their love in the beatiful frescos of Torrechiaro.
Just hope the wife doesn't find out.
You can find the images on our website - Episode Information – Tudoriferous
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Warm Memories - Emotional Inspiring Piano by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon
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Friday Feb 06, 2026
Friday Feb 06, 2026
The man closest to the King or the man who wants to bring down the dynasty? Who knows?
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Relevant Episodes - Cameo 6 - Sir Richard Nanfan | Tudoriferous
Friday Jan 30, 2026
Friday Jan 30, 2026
The last week in our series A Month in Naples (Not as Nice as it Sounds)
This one had to stand and watch as two rival candidates pushed him aside and took his country.
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