S2.37 James I (of Scots)

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🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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After a century of weak rulers and a divided family, the omens looked bad for James I: his uncle, Albany, was in charge of Scotland while he was just a child in an English prison. However, James would prove a more forceful character than his recent predecessors and was determined to assert himself over his rivals in Scotland. With England struggling in the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses approaching, could James restore glory to Scotland and win 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!
0:10.0	This week, James the first! This week, James the First!
0:19.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hood.
0:32.0	Hello, and uh... and uh... and welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from
0:35.8	Kenneth Macalpin to James the 6th. Bit of admin.
0:39.2	Mm. Last time we were in your bedroom. Yes.
0:43.0	Things didn't go well.
0:44.2	We're back to the office, to the studio.
0:46.5	The window has been fixed to which we have to thank my father.
0:50.5	Ali had several very good attempts that were perhaps too good.
0:55.0	I'm so frustrated.
0:57.0	Oh and also, I'm having a lovely slice of cake with my tea today. Victoria sponge delicious.
1:04.4	So it's been a while since we've done the Scottish episode so probably it'll be
1:07.9	helpful for everybody to have a bit of backgroundy stuff.
1:10.5	So Ali, where are we at? We are... Who's the last fella? So...
1:17.0	Since we did Robert the Bruce, we've had something of a pattern of weak kings.
1:25.0	Basically the last hundred years has just been weak kings struggling to establish their authority in opposition to increasingly independent nobles who are kind of running the show.
1:34.0	So we had David II who spent time exiled in France, then imprisoned in England.
1:38.6	He was really annoying.
1:39.8	Then we had Robert II who secures the new Stuart dynasty, but he's quite old when he starts off he gets
1:44.8	reduced to a figurehead by his sons while the Northern and Southern Lords just kind of do what they want and decide
1:50.6	diplomatic policy and all that sort of stuff.
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