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Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dance Know's History. Today, I will be learning all about one of the most brilliant poets in the history of English language,

a poet who has been compared, as you'll hear, favourably to William Shakespeare. I'm talking to one of my favourite people in the lower

Catherine Rundell. She's an author, but she's also an academic. She writes, children's literature. She's been very, very highly praised,

one of the big awards for that kind of stuff. For children's literature, I read them to my kids, but she's also

fantastically talented. She's also a brilliant academic and thankfully, thankfully, she's chosen to write about the life

of John Dunn, late 16th, early 17th century poet, but also rake, wild man, pirate. He's called it all. You know, I love this guy.

And the best thing of all is that Catherine has got the greatest voices in the world.

Unless you recite his poetry, it's fantastic. You're going to absolutely love it.

Catherine is putting John Dunn back where he belongs at the very top of the list of great English poets.

If you want to hear more about this poet, Lake Tudor, early 18th, I've got good news for you. You can go to History Hit TV,

which made a documentary about Warwickshire in that period about Shakespeare's country and how it coped with the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism.

And how it gave us the gunpowder plot as well. Exciting stuff. That program is now available in History Hit TV, as well as lots of podcasts about the period including the whole podcast strand.

Not just the Tudors with Professor Susanna Lipskin. We've got a lot of Tudor content on there folks.

So you head over to History Hit TV. It's like Netflix's documentaries and audio shows all about history right there available anywhere in the world on the internet at any time.

If you click the link in the description of this podcast, it will take you there right away as if by magic.

John Dunne would have loved it. Just click on there. You get two weeks free of his time today.

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