415. The Murder of Richard II (Part 3)

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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“For within the hollow crown that rounds the hollow temple of a king...” Richard II, son of the dashing Black Prince and grandson of Edward III, became King of England at only ten years old. By the age of fifteen he had overcome one of the most terrifying threats to the English Crown up to that point: the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. In the ensuing years, Richard’s rule became increasingly autocratic. This, coupled with the threat of foreign invasion and his dangerous proclivity for favourites, increasingly alienated Richard’s subjects, with rebel lords eventually taking up arms against the king. As the storm-clouds of civil war loomed large, King Richard II clung to his hollow crown…. Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss the events that resulted in Richard’s deposition and mysterious death, and what his reign tells us the English monarchy in the 15th century. *The Rest Is History LIVE in 2024* Tom and Dominic are back onstage this summer, at Hampton Court Palace in London! Buy your tickets here: therestishistory.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.0	UK.
0:34.0	My lord of Hereford here, whom you call King, is a foul traitor to proud Herford's King.
0:51.0	And if you crown him, let me prophesy the blood of English
0:56.2	shun near the ground and future ages grown for this foul act peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels, and in this seat of peace,
1:07.0	tumultuous wars shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound.
1:13.2	Disorder, horror, fear, and mutiny shall hear inhabit.
1:17.8	And this land be called the Field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls. Oh if you raise this house against this house it will
1:26.3	the woefulest division prove that ever fell upon this cursed earth.
1:30.5	Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, lest child, child's children cry against
1:39.4	you.
1:40.4	Woe! So that is the Bishop of Carlisle and William Shakespeare's Richard the second.
1:48.0	And that moment Tom comes at the fateful moment, doesn't it? The climax of Shakespeare's great play, a play that's not one of the most
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