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 very special edition

of the Renaissance English History podcast, part of the Agora Podcast Network. I am your host,

Heather Tesco, and I'm so thrilled that I was able to have a conversation with Alison Weir earlier this month. But before we

get into that, just a couple of bits of admin. First, the Agora podcast of the month this month

is American Biography, which is the American Story told through Americans stories. So it's a podcast all about biographies

of people who had a lot to do with American history, but are often overlooked because they

aren't the biggest names. So cabinet members, congressmen, things like that. So check that out.

And also, I have put up show notes for this conversation with Alison Weir

on Englandcast.com. So you can go to Englandcast.com and there are notes and links to all

of the different books that she mentioned, upcoming books that she's working on, everything like

that. And while you're at the website as well,

you can sign up for my mailing list. Newsletter subscribers get access to extra mini-casts, as well as

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