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Oh, I love that music. You know what that music means? The Hillsdale dialogue is a bonus. The last

radio hour of the week and has been for many, many years is with Dr. Larry on present of Hillsdale

College and or one of his colleagues this week. Dean Steven Smith continues as we complete the

history plays unless we count the not history history plays, which we will come back to it a later

day. But we are in Henry VIII and we have gotten a long time to get to Henry VIII who I mean stepping

back from the plays Steven Smith. Really one of the most interesting people in English history

in American history and history. He's a captivating and powerful figure and it's interesting to

me that Shakespeare waits to the very end of his working life to take up the story. You know he

does so one earlier time in his career he collaborated on the book of Sir Thomas Moore and that play

was never produced and never published. So this is a sensitive subject Henry VIII and it's the

subject of his life. Well, he's the close to the last play. Because the queen is Henry VIII's daughter.

Right. But the queen has mixed feelings about Henry VIII. No, no. She is the basis of her claim

to be in the line. So she's united about that. And then the fact that he killed her mother.

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