S1.60 George V

Rex Factor

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4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2013

⏱️ 86 minutes

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George V came to the throne in 1910 in the midst of a constitutional crisis and from that point on things didn't really get any easier. As monarch, George faced hung Parliaments, social upheaval, the Great Depression and the horrors of the First World War - arguably one of the toughest in-trays for any British monarch. For a man who was rather averse to change and preferred the quiet life of a country squire, this represented something of a challenge and that the monarchy was left still standing by the end of his reign, rebranded as the House of Windsor, was no mean feat - but will it be enough to earn him the Rex Factor? 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 Rex Factor.
0:14.0	This week, George the 5th.
0:26.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Hello.
0:27.0	Hello.
0:28.0	Welcome to Direct Factor.
0:29.0	We're reviewing all the Kings and Queens of England from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth
0:32.0	the Second.
0:32.6	Yeah, and we're getting very close and this is George the Fifth Take two.
0:36.4	Yes, we're getting close and yet we are still where we are two weeks ago.
0:39.2	We had a disaster with our George's Fifth recording, namely that after doing the entire recording, it all got wiped.
0:45.2	Yeah, it's a Stephen effect, we call it.
0:47.6	And Ali's been working very hard for last two weeks to forget everything that I was holding last time.
0:51.6	But if there's any point of which Ali sounds unusually knowledgeable,
0:55.6	it's because he's heard it before.
0:56.8	Yeah, I've been living a rock and roll life structure
0:59.5	and really punish those brain cells.
1:01.8	Just say, thanks to everybody on Twitter and on Facebook who gave us nice supporting messages
1:05.9	after we announced the fact that we had lost the last episode.
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