S1.77 The Grand Final

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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After four years reviewing all the kings and queens of England from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth II we have reached the end - the Grand Final. The three contenders for the Rex Factor crown are Alfred the Great (the founding father), Henry II (the Plantagenet top seed) and Elizabeth I (the iconic Tudor queen). In this episode, we compare them across all the factors but the winner will be determined by you - click the link below to vote on which monarch you want to be crowned Rex Factor champion. http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=56d91477-ef36-4c2b-9862-aae59f75cfd0 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 the Rex Factor Grand Final!
0:04.0	With your finalists, Alfred the Great, Henry the Second and Elizabeth the First,
0:20.0	with your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hood.
0:30.5	Hello!
0:31.2	Hello!
0:32.2	And welcome to the grand final of Rex Factor. We are here we have reviewed all
0:39.1	the Kings and Queens from of England from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth the second and they've gone through the
0:44.7	not of the what you call it the playoffs fail 18 had the Rex factor only three
0:50.0	remain yes so this episode we're going to go through Alfred, Henry and Elizabeth.
0:55.0	A bit briefer in terms of summarising their lives and achievements, but then in each section
1:00.0	Ali and I will have a bit more of a fuller.
1:02.0	Yeah, really some debate about who comes out top and why to give you some help to think about who you're going to vote for
1:09.0	because of course, as you've done previously, you will be voting for who you want to win Rex Factor and on this occasion
1:15.9	it will be entirely down to the public vote.
1:20.0	Yeah, but so for the grand final, Ali and I are no longer going to be voting.
1:24.3	It is all entirely down to your vote.
1:26.7	So go to Rex Factor. WordPress.com for details about how you can vote and for more information about all of the monarchs.
1:35.0	So let's have a quick run through the three biographies, the life stories of these three finalists.
1:42.0	The three best? The three best officially. So first up
1:45.9	Alfred the Great. Yeah. The Anglo-Saxon monarch, the first one that we ever did and here he is at the end.
1:53.4	Yeah, that's amazing bookending. He was born in the year 849 which was 1,165 years ago.
2:01.0	A long time. Came to the throne in 871 at the age of 22. Of course the big thing for
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