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time to get back to the matter on hand which is the podcast so strap

yourselves into the time machine as we set off on the next stop on my love letter

to the world recorder microphone action. Souters come calling at her door, the first and most powerful as King Philip II of Spain,

Good Queen Bess turns him down, rebuffed, angry and determined to fight for his religion, he declares war.

Clad in armour, dressed in white and rousing her troops at Tilbury.

Bess declares, let tyrants fear in this moment she makes her memory immortal and

England

endeavouring to understand history in hopes of illuminating the future.

I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world.

Hi Neil, in last week's episode we travel back in time to Spain in the mid-1500 to ask questions about compassion and what it means to be human and alive. Where are we

this week? Morning Paul. Well this week's episode has another large and

threatening presence courtesy of Spain.

Step forward King Philip II of Spain and his Spanish armada.

The date is 9th of August 1588 and were at Tilbury Fort on the banks of the River Thames.

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