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Welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible

because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe,

and being much more deeply in touch with our own humanity. So, my friends, this is episode,

I think, 221. I've really lost track. But we are talking about Sir Philip Sidney, because you know what, I think 221. I've really lost track. But we are talking about Sir Philip Sidney,

because you know what? I did an episode a couple of weeks ago on Francis Burke, and I said in that

episode, she was his wife, and I said in that episode that I had done an episode on Philip Sidney

because I thought I had. And it turns up,

I did a full episode with Tudor Time on Mary Sydney Herbert. And then I had also done an

episode called Three Tudor Poets like years and, I don't know, it was like 10 years ago.

But when I looked back, because I was going to put it in the show notes, the link to the episode on Sir Philip Sidney, it turns out I actually hadn't done that episode like I thought I had. So I lied. So now I am, now I'm doing that episode that I said I had done. So the lie becomes a truth or something. Anyway, that is the

reason. That is the backstory. Here we are. Just a quick thank you to those of you who join the

YouTube channel or become patrons on Patreon. Patrons and members get extra episodes. They get discounts to TudorCon and at my shop. They get all kinds of

fun things this month, depending on the level that they're at. There's going to be an entire

course on the Wars of the Roses. Some of them get free Tudor planners in December. So you know what?

It's just, it's a heck of a value. Plus, you just get that

amazing feeling of knowing you're supporting an independent podcaster. I mean, like, that just,

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