4.4 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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In this episode, we explore Tony Riches' Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman, uncovering the life of Bess Throckmorton, a woman who captured Sir Walter Raleigh's heart and played a subtle yet powerful role in the Tudor court. Riches’ book reveals the secrets, ambition, and quiet strength of this fascinating figure in Elizabethan history.
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Host: Rebecca Larson
Guest: Tony Riches
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0:00.0 | The Tudors Dynasty podcast. |
0:03.7 | Hello and welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, and today I am so happy to |
0:09.2 | welcome back to the show. Once again, Tony Riches. Welcome back, Tony. Well, thank you for inviting |
0:14.5 | me again. It's great. It's becoming a regular thing, this. Well, you write a lot of books, so I am happy to welcome you back every time. |
0:24.2 | One a year. I write one a year. |
0:26.5 | So it's a bit scary. It shows how the years are passing, doesn't it? |
0:30.2 | Oh, well, let's not be reminded. They move too quickly already. |
0:36.5 | I seem to recall one time when I was working on my fiction book, I think it was, |
0:41.5 | that you told me that the best way to do it was to write one page per day, |
0:49.1 | and then you end up with 365 pages, right? |
0:52.5 | That's absolutely right. |
0:53.8 | And it doesn't matter if you're not in the mood, even, because with 365 pages, right? That's absolutely right. |
0:57.4 | It doesn't matter if you're not in the mood, even, |
1:00.1 | because as long as you write something, |
1:01.9 | you can always edit something, |
1:05.1 | but you can't edit a blank page is what they say, isn't it? |
1:08.0 | So if you're not happy with it, |
1:10.5 | it's a lot easier to improve something once you've got it down on the page, you know? |
1:13.5 | That's so true. It really is. Well, it's amazing how many books that you have written over your career. |
1:19.5 | I think I can call you a prolific writer. |
1:23.5 | Thank you. |
1:25.4 | Well, I've done the whole of the Tudor dynasty now. |
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