Introducing… Season 5 of a Dynasty to Die for

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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The Plantagenets are back! This season we meet Edward II, a king who is head over heels with his favourite knight, Piers Gaveston. Their relationship sparks off a mighty conflict in court, pitching Edward against his cousin, the fearsome Earl of Lancaster. While these two come to extremely violent blows, his wife, Queen Isabella, waits for her moment. 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 Written and hosted by Dan Jones Producer - Georgia Mills Executive Producer - Louisa Field Production Manager - Jen Mistri Marketing - Kieran Lancini Sound Design and Mixing - Gulliver Lawrence-Tickell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the new season of a dynasty to die for we meet Edward the second.
0:06.0	He's good looking, he's fun, he gets on with his people.
0:10.0	He loves rowing, his pet camels, and Welsh music.
0:13.7	He seems, well, pretty nice.
0:17.2	This king may have the common touch,
0:19.7	but there's a small problem.
0:21.9	He's not actually that interested in the day-to-day political job of ruling
0:26.7	England. He's far more interested in his best friend, brother-in-arms, maybe even soulmate,
0:34.4	Piers Gaveston.
0:36.3	Edward's love, bordering on obsession with this man,
0:39.7	will turn his family and his barons against him. And within months of becoming king, things start to unravel spectacularly.
0:49.0	Then there's Queen Isabella, a ruler so shrewd she gets the nickname the She-Wulf of France.
0:57.0	She has her own plans for the future of the kingdom.
1:02.0	With England on the brink of war and the House of Plantagenet teetering on the edge of total collapse,
1:07.6	brace yourself for murder mysteries, Tarantino-grade Uber Violence, scandalous affairs, feuding cousins, cats on trial, and a family
1:17.5	that's messier than a soup sandwich.
1:20.9	War has always been deadly for the Plantagenets, but nothing's been quite so dangerous as love. Each week I'll drop a new episode and subscribers can listen a week early, ad-free, alongside weekly bonus episodes
1:36.0	which are chock full of weird details and tangents about the Middle Ages.
1:41.6	To subscribe to This is History Plus, search for This is History on Apple
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1:51.1	trial.
1:56.0	Listen and follow to the new season of This is History, A Dynasty to Die for,
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