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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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4 days ago
4 days ago
The first of three trips to Portugal.
Exploration, murder, incest, Communism and my appalling Portuguese pronunciation.
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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 025 - Ferdinand of Aragon - Part One | Tudoriferous
Friday Jun 19, 2026
Friday Jun 19, 2026
For the 200th episode of Tudoriferous, we present a full performance of "Fulgens and Lucrece" the masterpiece of the first known English playwright, Henry Medwall!
Who will Lucrece, the wise and beautiful daughter of Roman Senator Fulgens, marry? Will she choose the noble but morally dubious Cornelius, or the common but upstanding Gaius? And will their servants, the oddly-named A and B, stop making metatheatrical jokes and chasing her maid Joan for long enough to help? Be warned, we've put the explicit tag on this episode for a reason, the humour of the 1490s was sometimes rather direct...
Thank you so much to the History Podcast Players!
As well as David and Lucy from Tudoriferous, playing A and Joan respectively, this performance features the voices of:
B - Michael from Quest for Power
Fulgens - Quinn from Nobelesse Oblige
Cornelius - Simon from The History of Venice
Lucrece - Meredith from The Alexander Standard
Gaius - Roberto from Tsar Power, and The History of Saqartvelo Georgia... and Quest for Power too!
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Relevant Episodes - Medieval and Early Tudor Drama
Saturday Jun 13, 2026
Saturday Jun 13, 2026
With the death of Edward IV, Dorset's life is plunged into chaos. Will he be the power behind the throne? A despised and morally dubious rebel? An unreliable royal ally? A significant patron? Or just a quiet family man with a sideline in visiting famous prisons? Listen on to discover just how unlucky Thomas Grey can be...
You can find images and a full bibliography on our website - Episode Information – Tudoriferous
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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 42 - Edward Woodville, feat. The Woodvilles
S1 - 042 - Edward Woodville- Part Two
Cameo 51 - Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent
Image: Detail from an illumination from Volume 6 of the Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre by Jean de Wavrin (15th Century)
Friday Jun 05, 2026
Friday Jun 05, 2026
Almost a prince, almost a duke, almost a kingmaker, almost a rebel - this man teeters on the edge of history, but will Elizabeth Woodville's son, stepson to Edward IV and brother-in-law to Henry VII, be able to escape from the shadow of his incredibly dramatic family? Maybe if we can just work out what a Marquis actually is...
You can find images and a full bibliography on our website - Episode Information – Tudoriferous
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Relevant Episodes - S1 - 42 - Edward Woodville, feat. The Woodvilles
S1 - 042 - Edward Woodville- Part Two
Cameo 51 - Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent
Image: Detail from King Edward IV and His Queen, Elizabeth Woodville at Reading Abbey, 1464 by Ernest Board (1877-1934) Copyright Reading Museum
Friday May 29, 2026
Friday May 29, 2026
A Life in Ten Battles.
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Relevant Episodes - S1-049 Anne de Beaujeu, Part Two | Tudoriferous
S1 049 - Anne de Beaujeu, Part Three | Tudoriferous
S1 - 022 - Louis XII of France | Tudoriferous
Friday May 22, 2026
Friday May 22, 2026
Duke Francis of Brittany's loyal right-hand man or the Svengali to Francis' Trilby? He quickly came to discover that the nobility doesn't like tailors' sons.....unless they're measuring them up for a suit.
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Relevant Episodes - S1-049 Anne de Beaujeu, Part Two | Tudoriferous
S1 - 003 - Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke | Tudoriferous
Saturday May 16, 2026
Saturday May 16, 2026
We've covered all of the popes who ran the Catholic Church during Henry VII's reign (and at least one who didn't), and who better to tell us how we've done than Bry and Fry from "Pontifacts - ranking all of the Popes from Peter to Leo XIV"!
Listen on to hear why we let Sixtus IV off far too lightly, why pious men don't make good Renaissance Popes, and why Julius II was just so, so obsessed with Alexander VI.
And why didn't they listen to Burchard?
Find Pontifacts here! https://pontifacts.podbean.com/ And on many, many other podcatchers.
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Relevant Episodes of Tudoriferous - Pope Sixtus IV
Pope Julius II (though this one is mostly on the Alum trade - to get properly into Julius II's story, start here with part two)
Friday May 08, 2026
Friday May 08, 2026
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