Introducing… Season Seven of a Dynasty to Die for

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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This is the story of the ultimate frenemies that will see a cataclysmic shift in power away from the Plantagenets. The warrior king Edward III is dying and disaster looms when his grandson, the child king Richard II, is crowned. It’s not long before he clashes with his cousin, Henry, in a classic tragedy of boyhood companions turned deadly rivals. 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 Presented by Dan Jones Senior Producer - Dominic Tyerman Executive Producer - Louisa Field Production Manager - Jen Mistri Production coordinator: Eric Ryan Marketing - Kieran Lancini Mixing - Gulliver Lawrence Tickell Head of content – Chris Skinner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In our new season of This Is History, prepare yourself for a tale of the ultimate frenemies.
0:08.2	Two cousins locked in a bitter fight for power, from boyhood companions to deadly rivals.
0:15.4	The end has finally come for the warrior king Edward III, once one of the most powerful rulers in plantagenet
0:22.7	history, now decrepit and senile. He leaves behind him a kingdom in chaos and a successor
0:30.3	barely old enough to cross the road alone, never mind navigate the trials of office.
0:36.3	This is the story of King Richard II, who becomes a magnificent
0:41.5	but murderous tyrant, hell-bent on terrorizing his country. His nemesis, a dashing,
0:48.4	crusading nobleman, famous across the world, is his cousin, Henry Bollingbrook.
0:55.0	Richard's bloody reign will see murder, rebellion and treason.
1:00.0	It'll see the Tower of London breached for the only time in history
1:04.0	and a peasant's revolt on a scale rarely seen before.
1:08.0	Can Henry be the man to stop him? Will radical new parliaments help restore peace to the
1:13.9	realm? The story continues. Join me, Dan Jones, on This Is History, a dynasty to die for.
1:20.9	Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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