Tudor podcast episodes

Dr Nicola Clark explores the lives of the women serving the six queens of Henry VIII, who watched Tudor England convulsed by dissolution, reformation and royal executions

Historical consultant Peter Wagstaff takes us into the world of Shardlake, a new Tudor murder-mystery drama set during the dissolution of the monasteries

Jane Malcolm-Davies unpicks the historical sources to uncover what people wore in the 16th century

Dean Snow tells the story of an Englishman who embarked on an extraordinary 3,600-mile trek across North America in the 1560s

Nicholas Orme uncovers what infancy and childhood were like in the 16th century

Phillipa Vincent-Connolly explores the lives of disabled people in the Tudor era, from community care to the royal court

Lauren Mackay on the tumultuous lives of Anne Boleyn’s father and brother, Thomas and George

Helen Castor explores the psychology of the Virgin Queen

Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses his new book on the Tudor statesman

In a bonus Sunday episode, Tracy Borman responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the 16th-century English royal dynasty

Alison Weir discusses the life and tragic death of the Tudor king’s third wife, who bore him his long-awaited male heir

Helen Castor describes the short, but dramatic, life and reign of England’s ‘Nine Days Queen’

Mark Stoyle follows the progress of the so-called “Prayer Book Rebellion”, and explores how this dramatic revolt almost changed the course of Tudor history

Joanne Paul reveals how the might of the Tudor dynasty was built on the blood and sweat of three generations of another family – the Dudleys

Edmond Smith reveals how a tightly-woven merchant community helped bring about the globalisation of England between 1550 and 1650

Sarah Gristwood considers how the Tudor monarchs used medieval ideas about courtly love for their own ends

Elena Woodacre delivers a lecture on the portrayal of historical queens in cinema and television, from Mary Queen of Scots to The Spanish Princess

Alison Weir discusses the varied and dramatic life of Henry VIII’s final wife, Katharine Parr

Sometimes described as England’s Leonardo, Hans Holbein the Younger painted the great and the good of Tudor society. Franny Moyle chronicles his incredible art and tempestuous life

Sam Willis and James Daybell take a sideways look at the Tudors era, exploring everything from gloves to priest holes

Nicola Cornick discusses the life and mysterious death of Tudor gentlewoman Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley

In this lecture recorded at BBC History Magazine’s 2019 History Weekend, historian Nicola Tallis explores the life of Tudor matriarch Margaret Beaufort

Estelle Paranque and Emma J Wells reflect on the religious changes that took place during the reigns of Henry VIII and his children

Kate Hubbard on the fascinating life of Bess of Hardwick who become the second richest woman in England after Elizabeth I