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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Introducing…This Is History: A Dynasty To Die For, with Dan Jones

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Power, greed, religion and sex: historian Dan Jones brings the drama of medieval history alive through compelling stories, larger-than-life characters and vivid scenes. In the first season, get to know the most dysfunctional family of the Middle Ages – the Plantagenets – and find out how their scandalous betrayals and bloody politics shaped the world we live in today.  A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Mark!

0:01.0

Hey Simon!

0:02.0

Have you heard of the cheweders?

0:03.0

I have all their albums.

0:04.8

What about The Ad Wardians?

0:07.0

My favorite pub.

0:08.4

What about the Plantagenets?

0:10.8

No sorry who?

0:11.8

Well they're a medieval royal family or a kind of high middle.

0:15.0

I don't know something like that.

0:16.6

Who shaped the world that we live in today.

0:18.3

And if you think there's a lot of drama going on today, just you wait because these guys

0:22.5

have it much worse if you can believe it.

0:25.0

Oh wait to reserve judgement.

0:26.2

Well give it a listen see what you think.

0:27.6

The brand new podcast, This Is History, A Dynasty To Die For.

0:31.7

See what they did there?

0:32.7

Is out now.

0:33.7

Join the brilliant historian Dan Jones as he tells the story of the ferocious Plantagenets

0:40.0

in two short episodes every week.

0:42.3

Do you have a trial?

0:43.3

We certainly do.

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