Kermode & Mayo’s Take - Introducing…This Is History: A Dynasty To Die For, with Dan Jones
Episode Date: September 22, 2022Power, greed, religion and sex: historian Dan Jones brings the drama of medieval history alive through compelling stories, larger-than-life characters and vivid scenes. In the first season, get to kn...ow the most dysfunctional family of the Middle Ages – the Plantagenets – and find out how their scandalous betrayals and bloody politics shaped the world we live in today. A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hey Mark!
Hey Simon!
Have you heard of the chooders?
I have all their albums.
Uh, what about... The Ad Wardians?
My favorite pub.
What about... The Plantagenets?
No, sorry, who?
Well, they're a medieval royal family
or a kind of high middle.
I don't know something like that,
who shaped the world that we live in today.
And if you think there's a lot of drama going on today,
just you wait because these guys have it much worse
if you can believe it.
I'll wait to reserve judgment.
Well, give it a listen, see what you think.
The brand new podcast, this is history, a dynasty to die for.
See what they did there?
Is out now.
Join the brilliant historian Dan Jones, as he tells the story
of the ferocious plantagenets in two short episodes every week.
Do you have a trial?
We certainly do.
Here we go.
A young queen on the run from her suitors,
a teenager determined to claim his rightful crown,
the mystery of a murdered bishop, and the children who would stop at nothing to seize their
parent's power. I'm Dan Jones, I'm a historian, and in my new podcast, This Is History,
I'm going to tell the story of the Middle Ages' most dysfunctional family, the Plantagenets.
The age is most dysfunctional family, the plantagenets. Their story is full of crusades, invasions, adventures, and lots of nasty ways to die.
Brothers betraying brothers, fathers fighting mothers, and sons fighting just about everyone.
This is the juicy psychodrama of a family living permanently on the edge of madness, and
those dramas have shaped the world we live in today.
From something else and Sony music entertainment,
this is history.
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