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Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England.

Episode 189, the most untrue creature.

Couple of housekeeping bits to start off with if you don't mind. Firstly, another ACAST survey.

I'm really sorry, I know many of you responded to the last one and thank you very much for that.

And I am sorry to bug you again. But can I beg a boon? Could you nip along to survey.acast.com and take five minutes to fill out another one?

They share the results with me and it's really useful and interesting. There's a draw for £200 worth of Amazon vouchers to boot.

I'll put a link on the Facebook page and on my website thehistoryofingland.com. Thank you very much in advance.

That address again is survey.acast.com. Sounds odd or no.

Secondly, thanks a million for everyone who took part in the Richard III, Nave, Full or Saviour vote.

I had to say I loved it, despite a small but vociferous group who objected to the very basis of the voting system.

You know who you are. Pender, Barbara and Jonathan.

Now then, it's a week after the great debate and you're probably thinking I'll talk all about winners and losers, pros and cons, coins and angels and all that sort of thing.

But not a bit of it, general listeners, because you are actually listening to a previous version of me.

A pre-great debate result version of me. Because outrageously we've gone on holiday.

So this is a pre-recorded episode. As the all are, actually I suppose.

Anyway, and I'm also going to tell you that there is no pre-recorded episode for next weekend, so you can all have a week off.

Though with a bit of luck, I'll get the results of the poll up on the Facebook page at least.

It'll give me something to do while I'm trying to avoid the heat that the rest of my family will be lapping up.

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