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Robin Hood: everything you wanted to know

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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There are few better-known folktales than the story of a gentlemanly outlaw roaming the forest with his band of merry men, robbing the rich to give to the poor. But where did the legend of Robin Hood come from? How come early versions of the story were much more grisly? And would the outlaw archer really have worn green tights? Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, Dr Sean McGlynn answers listener questions on Robin Hood for our latest Everything you wanted to know episode. (Ad) Sean McGlynn is the author of Robin Hood: A True Legend (2018). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robin-Hood-Legend-Sean-McGlynn/dp/1790242533/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=shepherd/9780861540914#:~:text=From%20fourteenth%2Dcentury%20England%20to,'&text=*%20Foreword%20Reviews%20*-,'In%20this%20bewitching%20debut%2C%20Shepherd%20adapts%20her%20BBC%20Radio%204,strange%20account%20of%20delusions...&tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histipad Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know. I guess you'd have to ask someone that has sex.

0:23.6

Someone that has sex.

0:24.6

Right.

0:25.6

And remember, it's just between us.

0:28.6

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Reveal.

0:56.3

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

1:05.7

There are a few more appealing folk tales than the story of a gentlemanly outlaw roaming the forest with his band of merry men,

1:07.9

robbing the rich to give to the poor.

1:15.8

But where did the legend of Robin Hood come from? How come early versions of the story were much more grizzly?

1:24.1

And would the Outlaw Archer really have worn green tights? To answer your questions on Robin Hood for today's Everything You Want to Know episode, I spoke to Dr. Sean McGlynn, a medieval historian

1:29.8

and the author of Robin Hood, A True Legend. I wanted to start us off today with a question

1:36.5

that a lot of people have asked. So H.L. Newfeld has asked this. Bell Buchanan and Anna J.

1:43.1

Morrie have all asked, was Robin Hood a real

1:46.9

person? I think that's a good place to start. Yeah, straight to the heart of the matter,

1:51.0

isn't it? We don't know, but while there are no official records of his life, this absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. For a start,

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