Hello everyone and welcome to episode 228, Mistress Anne Berlin, Scandal of Christendom.

So for me this is a significant episode and hopefully for all of you because this is the

start of four weeks of fun, all about Anne Berlin, a character who hasn't still does

fascinate and divide. We're going to have a hoole, a little like the Richard III hoole we had

pretty much a year ago now. This is what we're going to do. Over the next month there will be six

episodes on the history of England, four from me and two from guests. Ooh, here you say, how exciting

of which more in a minute. The last of these will be one episode from me laying out some of the pros

and cons of a particular debating question on which you will then vote. The debating questioning

question has to where is this? The history of England agrees with Professor Eric Ives that Anne

Berlin was a maker of history and rejects Catherine of arrogance insult that she was nothing more than

the scandal of Christendom. This of course is why I have called our hoole the scandal of Christendom

not because I consider Anne to be necessarily scandalous but because we would decide between us

by the Catherine was correcting what she said. So that question again, the history of England

agrees with Professor Eric Ives that Anne Berlin was a maker of history and rejects Catherine

of arrogance insult that she was nothing more than the scandal of Christendom. You will be able to

vote yes, no or indeed like Henry and Anne you can abstain. Everyone who votes on the Facebook page

which is where the voting will be done will be entered into a prize draw and there shall be four

prizes. Four shall be the number of prizes that we have. Three we will not have excepted that we

proceed us to four and five shall be right out. Here they are in no particular order. We have a

reproduction of the medallion prepared on the occasion of Anne Berlin's pregnancy in 1536 by the

Stone Carver Lucy Churchill. Lucy's work has been commented on by Eric Ives David Starkey, Susan

Bordeaux, Alison Weir, as the best representation of Anne that we have. It is also a work of beauty.

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