Final Days of Sir Walter Raleigh

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

History Hit

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

'Strike, man, strike!' were the last words of Sir Walter Raleigh as his neck lay on the block. After thirteen years in the Tower of London, (multiple) expeditions to find a city of gold, and a plot to kill the king, Walter Raleigh finally met his end. Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the story of how it all played out.

Edited by Tomos Delargy. Research by Phoebe Joyce. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.

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0:35.6	Made with zesty lemon time from a small family farm in Provence and essential oils from herbs
0:37.9	that grow in the Mediterranean sunshine.
0:41.3	So, if three quarters of your G&T is a fever tree tonic,
0:46.4	maybe it's time to call it a TNG.
0:50.3	Fever tree, mix with the best.
0:54.6	Ooh, that takes me straight to the med.
0:59.4	Hello and welcome to After Dark.
1:02.1	I'm Anthony.
1:02.7	And I'm Maddie.
1:03.3	And today we are talking about one of the icons of Tudor and then Stuart England.
1:07.7	And he's somebody who is a lot of things to a lot of different people.
1:11.8	Is he a spy master? Is he the lover of a queen? Is he the man who invented potatoes and did
1:18.3	some weird cloak thing to attract the attention of Elizabeth I. In this episode, we are,
1:24.0	of course, talking about Sir Walter Rally and more to the point, how he met his
1:28.3	end.
1:33.6	We begin many years after the end has been and gone, after the axe had fallen.
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