Legendary Woman Samurai: Hosokawa Gracia
Toda Mariko, or Mariko-san, one of the main characters from the new TV series Shogun - adapted from James Clavell's epic novel - is based on a real woman, Hosokawa Gracia. Who was she? Was she the zea...
20 Jun 202437min
Six Wives: Anne of Cleves
Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases, tragic ends, here were six women who shaped history in their ow...
17 Jun 202441min
Shakespeare's Players: Burbage and Kempe
Among the male players who performed thousands of new plays in the Elizabethan repertory, the most famous were Richard Burbage and Will Kempe, members of the company known first as the Lord Chamberlai...
13 Jun 202434min
Six Wives: Jane Seymour
Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases, tragic ends, here were six women who shaped history in their o...
10 Jun 202443min
A Tudor Mystery: The Girl Who Could Be Queen
This episode solves the 400-year old mystery of a previously unknown portrait of a young woman, dressed to look just like Queen Elizabeth herself.When Emma Rutherford - the country's leading expert in...
6 Jun 202433min
Six Wives: Anne Boleyn
Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases, tragic ends, here were six women who shaped history in their ow...
3 Jun 202450min
The Preacher Too Radical for Luther
The mid-15th to mid-16th centuries in Europe was an era of political, social, and religious unrest, when the Roman Catholic Church was being questioned by those who sought a more direct connection wit...
30 Mai 202436min
Female Spies in the 17th Century
If you think that the female spy is a 20th century phenomenon - be it Mata Hari, Mrs Zigzag or Eve Polastri - think again! Accounts of numerous 17th century 'she-intelligencers' have lain undiscovere...
27 Mai 202441min
