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The Open University. The future is open. Hey, hey, hey, friend, welcome back to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the

Agora podcast network and the original Tudor History podcast telling stories of

Tudor England since 2009. I am your host, Heather. And as always, I am delighted to share this

time with you. Thank you for being here with me and wanting to nerd out on Tudor History with me.

This week, we are going to talk about Great Escapees, Tudor Prison Breaks.

So a couple of years ago, gosh, maybe five years ago, it must have been five or six years

ago.

I did an episode on the top escapes from the Tower of London.

It had been based on a talk I did at the

Intelligence Speech Conference that was the most daring escapes from the Tower of London.

And I had also been talking about prisons here recently. We did this episode on

Tudor Justice and the law. And so I thought it would be fun to go back and kind of revisit

some of that and expand it.

So we aren't just talking about prison breaks from the Tower of London anymore, but actually

the most daring prison escapes of Tudor England. And of course, when most of us think about

prison in Tudor England, we think about the Tower of London, and that's, of course, the most kind of

iconic and famous prison, but there were other prisons. So today we are going to break out

of the Tower, literally, because while the Tower of London had its fair share of escape attempts,

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