Introducing...This is History Season 4

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Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Power, greed, religion and sex: historian Dan Jones brings the drama of mediaeval history alive through compelling stories, larger-than-life characters and vivid scenes. Season 4 tells the story of two kings, Henry and Edward, who are desperately trying to save their dynasty. Their conflicting personalities will be put to the ultimate test as an old friend, Simon de Montfort, and his growing powerbase threaten to destroy the Plantagenets for good. 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In-Laws, love them or hate them, you're pretty much stuck with them.
0:04.0	And when you're a ruler in the Middle Ages, that can be a serious problem.
0:08.0	It might even land you dead.
0:11.0	I'm Dan Jones, and on season four of this is history I'm telling the story of
0:16.6	England's weirdest king, Henry the third. This kind soul is in way over his head and he's surrounded by relatives who are smarter, more ambitious, and much less concerned with doing the right thing.
0:30.0	Can he survive the oncoming storm or is it true that nice kings finish last?
0:37.0	Join me Dan Jones for the wildest ride of the Middle Ages.
0:41.0	There'll be family fallouts, failed Crusades, bloody battles, and broken hearts.
0:47.4	And this story of a family who can't quite find a way to get along is going to reveal so much
0:52.3	about the bizarre way Britain operates today.
0:55.8	To listen, search this is history and follow wherever you get your podcasts.

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