Elizabethan Rivals: Francis Bacon & Edward Coke

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As Queen Elizabeth I lays dying, King James VI of Scotland is waiting to accede to the throne of England. But who will thrive and who will fall under the new King? Will it be the scholar Francis Bacon, whose brilliant mind is the envy of the court? Or his hated rival Edward Cook, the greatest lawyer of his generation?

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors — recorded at the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts —

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Jesse Norman MP about his new novel The Winding Stair, an epic tale of jealousy and intrigue in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, which, in its lowest moments, holds a darkened mirror to our own contemporary politics.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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