Hey, it's Heather, and I want to remind you about our very special tours to the UK.

In 2017, we'll be doing tours focusing on the Even Song experience.

The Even Song service comes from Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer from the mid-16th century.

It's been dubbed the Atheist's Favorite Service because it requires so little and it gives so much. It's simply

divine choral music sung in some of the most historic chapels, abbeys and cathedrals in England.

We'll be spending 10 days visiting places like Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds,

Winchester and Windsor with walking tours, free time to explore,

and then gathering back each afternoon for the Evensong Service if you choose to attend.

It will be 10 days of beautiful countryside, historic cities and villages, and so, so much music. I invite you to go to Englandcast.com

slash tours for full itinerary and pricing information. Again, Englandcast, E-N-G-L-A-N-D, C-A-S-D,

Englandcast.com slash tours. Thanks so much, and now to the show. Hello and welcome to a special episode of the

Renaissance English History podcast, part of the Agora Podcast Network. I'm your host, Heather Tesco,

and today I'm interviewing Melita Thomas about Margaret Beaufort. Melita is a co-founder and

editor of Tudor Times, a website devoted to Tudor and Stuart History in the period from 1485 to 1625.

You can find it at TudorTimes.co.uk.

Melita, who has always been fascinated by history, ever since she saw the 1970s series Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson,

also contributes articles to BBC History Extra and Britain Magazine.

So Malita, thank you so much for being with us today and for talking to us about Margaret

Oford.

Tell me in just a couple of, you know, a little introduction, what do we need to know about

Margaret?

Margaret was one of the pivotal figures in the last years of the Wars of the little introduction. What do we need to know about Margaret? Margaret was one of the pivotal

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