Final Days of Joan of Arc: Trial & Execution

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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Myths, Folklore, Mystery, History, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Murder, Ufos, True Crime, Paranormal, Supernatural, Serial Killers

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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(Part 2/2) Joan of Arc, mystic leader of a French army, was captured and sold to the English who tried her as a witch. What do the final days of this iconic figure tell us? With so much myth swirling around her, how can we get at the real Joan d'Arc?

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0:00.0	Hi, we're your host's Anthony Delaney and Maddie Pelling.
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0:28.9	No one could have foreseen the path Joan of Arc's life had taken up to this point.
0:39.8	Well, perhaps only visionaries like Joan herself, of course. From growing up as a peasant in the rural setting of Dom Remy to convincing
0:46.6	the king of her divine powers with such certainty that he entrusted her with his army at the
0:53.1	height of a civil war.
0:56.0	An army that she'd led fearlessly, a teenage girl dressed in men's armour, clutching victory
1:02.6	from the jaws of defeat at the siege of Orleans.
1:06.7	But her good fortune would not hold.
1:10.3	Joan, in the eyes of her enemies, and there were many, had taken things too far.
1:18.0	Now so many of the very voices that lifted her to greatness are plotting her downfall.
1:25.1	A move that must have shocked and stung every bit as much as the arrow that
1:30.0	tore through her armour and pierced her flesh. Joan of Arc, now just 17 years old,
1:36.9	wounded but victorious from the siege of Orleans, is soon to be betrayed, in a shocking move
1:43.7	that will lead to her trial and eventual death.
1:47.0	The Hello and welcome to After Dark with me.
2:18.2	What?
2:18.9	Antony and three, Maddie.
2:22.1	Madeline, thank you.
2:23.3	Oh yeah, look at you with your whole French name.
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