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

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've probably heard of the cheweders or even the Edwardians, and maybe you think
0:03.7	you know everything there is to know about the Victorians.
0:06.6	But do you know the wild story of the Plantagenuts?
0:10.1	This medieval royal family shaped the world we live in today, and if you think the Kardashians
0:14.1	have a lot of drama as well, then you really need to give this lot to go.
0:17.3	You can find out all about it on the brand new podcast This Is History, A Dynasty to Die
0:22.1	4.
0:23.1	Join the historian Dan Jones, as he tells the intriguing story of the ferocious Plantagenuts
0:27.8	in two short episodes every week.
0:30.8	A young queen on the run from her suitors, a teenager determined to claim his rightful
0:36.1	crown, the mystery of a murdered bishop, and the children who would stop at nothing to
0:42.0	seize their parents' power.
0:44.4	I'm Dan Jones, I'm a historian, and in my new podcast This Is History, I'm going to
0:49.5	tell the story of the Middle Ages' most dysfunctional family, The Plantagenuts.
0:55.0	The story is full of crusades, invasions, adventures, and lots of nasty ways to die.
1:01.8	Brothers betraying brothers, fathers fighting mothers, and sons fighting just about everyone.
1:08.1	This is the juicy psychodrama of a family living permanently on the edge of madness, and
1:13.4	those dramas have shaped the world we live in today.
1:17.2	From something else and Sony music entertainment, this is History.
1:21.6	And follow wherever you get your podcasts.

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