Anne Boleyn Special Part 1: Life and Afterlives

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🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the first of two special podcasts, from our sibling podcast Not Just the Tudors, to mark the 485th anniversary of Anne Boleyn's death, Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the enduring fascination with Anne's life and demise.

Exploring the different perceptions of Anne and her re-creation through her many afterlives are authors Claire Ridgway and Natalie Grueninger, historian Dr. Stephanie Russo and art historian Roland Hui.

The second part of this Anne Boleyn special will be available wherever you get your podcasts on Thursday, May 20.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the pod. You'll have seen at the top of the charts,
0:05.5	whether you're pod at the moment, Professor Suzanne Lipskim, with her new podcast called Not Just The
0:10.7	Tudors. Well, today on this feed I'm going to share with you in episode of that pod. It's
0:14.2	gone crazy, lots of people listening to it. It marks the 480th anniversary of the execution of
0:20.2	Ann Bellin, Henry VIII's second wife. Well, actually, either his second wife, his first wife,
0:27.2	or not his wife, depending on the mood and perspective of Henry VIII at various points in his life.
0:35.2	Ann Bellin has fascinated people for five centuries, and on this pod, Suzanne Lipskim has brought
0:40.0	together an absolute A team of Ann Bellin experts. This pod is like that seen from the matrix when
0:45.8	you want to learn Kung Fu. If you want to know Ann Bellin, just plug yourself in to this pod.
0:51.2	It's got everything you need. You can go from zero to 60 in just seconds. It's been awesome
0:58.0	having Suzanne joined the team and I'm thrilled that we get to share her wonderful content on this
1:02.0	feed. So enjoy, if you want to watch our documentary about Ann Bellin or any other historical
1:07.9	documentaries, please go to historyhit.tv. It's the world's best history channel. As you all know by
1:13.1	now, historyhit.tv, head across there. My big show on the Bismarck is coming up soon, the 80th
1:20.4	anniversary of the story of what was one of the greatest threats to Britain's maritime supremacy
1:25.8	in the second mobile at the Super battleship Bismarck unleashed on the north of Dandtik.
1:30.5	So please get ready. Prepare yourselves for that exciting release. But in the meantime, everyone,
1:35.3	here is Professor Suzanne Lipskim and her team talking about Ann Bellin. Enjoy.
1:40.6	Ann Bellin has long featured in historical fiction, in films and in popular TV depictions of the
1:53.2	tutors. Many of these repeat long held myths about Ann that she was a witch that she had a sixth
1:59.2	finger that she gave birth to a deformed fetus. All they reiterate tired tropes of Ann as a
2:06.1	fem for tower, seductress, a schema, an ambitious woman who reached too high and deserved to fall.
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