Oliver Cromwell Part 3: To Kill a King…

Real Dictators

NOISER

History, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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With the King in captivity, both sides seek a settlement. But when Charles escapes, all trust is broken. For Cromwell there is only one course of action - a solution that will plunge the British Isles into unknown territory. His Majesty must be put on trial… A Noiser production, written by Jeff Dawson. Many thanks to Peter Gaunt, Clare Jackson, Anna Keay, John Morrill, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Micheál Ó Siochrú. This is Part 3 of 4. Get every episode of Real Dictators a week early with Noiser+. You’ll also get ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to shows across the Noiser network. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Must remember do not forget
0:08.0	remind me to bring photo ID
0:11.0	reminder set babe can you make sure I don't forget Photo ID. Reminder, set.
0:13.0	Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote?
0:17.0	All right, love.
0:20.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.
0:24.7	Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID.
0:28.6	It's January the 30th, 1649, a Tuesday just before 2 p.m. We're in London, outside the palace of Whitehall.
0:42.0	It's been the home of England's monarchs since the time of Henry the 8th.
0:49.2	The day is bitterly cold. There are ice flows on the Thames. Flurries of snow swirl in the air. In the
0:58.6	yard a crowd is gathered, marshalled by roundhead soldiers.
1:04.1	They wait in horror as much as expectation.
1:07.7	Not fully able to process the event they're about to witness.
1:22.0	Inside, Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, makes the long walk through the state rooms.
1:23.0	He's escorted by parliamentary guards and his chaplain,
1:27.0	Bishop William Jackson.
1:29.0	Yesterday, the king said goodbye to two of his children, Elizabeth 13 and Henry 8.
1:37.7	His daughter was inconsolable.
1:40.8	Farewell's over, he takes his last earthly steps, passing through the banqueting hall, beneath the beautiful
1:47.1	Rubens frescoes that he himself commissioned.
1:51.3	They show his own father, James the sixth and first, looking down from heaven.
1:59.0	Stone masons have removed the brickwork beneath one of the windows. It is now an ad hoc doorway opening
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