In Conversation: Sexy poets and killer queens - with Alice Loxton

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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For This is History’s first ever live show, Dan is joined at the London Podcast Festival by author Alice Loxton. Alice’s most recent book, Eighteen, examines the teenage years of some of history’s biggest legends, including Goeffrey Chaucer. But what did it mean to be young in the Middle Ages, when was the worst time to be a teenager and did a sexy outfit cause the black death? A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted by Dan Jones and Alice Loxton Producer - Louisa Field and Georgia Mills Executive Producer - Louisa Field Production Manager - Eric Ryan and Jen Mistri Marketing - Kieran Lancini Sound Design and Mixing - Gulliver Lawrence-Tickell and Mattias Torres Sole Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.0	Tease and's apply. It's Easter 1357, the reign of Plantagen at King Edward III. It's late in the afternoon, but the streets of London are quiet.
1:18.7	The market, once a cacophony of voices haggling and kids laughing is subdued.
1:25.8	There are the baying sounds of goats and pigs in their pens, and bird song fills the air,
1:31.8	but the mood is solemn.
1:35.0	About every third house on the road is dark and empty,
1:38.7	cobwebs and plants crawling over the walls.
1:42.3	The owners either abandoned them years before or more likely
1:46.1	died. Eight years ago 70% of the population of England died in the calamity known as the Black Death.
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