Season 5 | 1. Generation Kill

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Edward I is getting too old to fight his enormous list of enemies, and so begins handing over the reins of war to his son and a brand new generation of knights. But the old king has a gnawing feeling he can’t shake – does his heir have what it takes to rule, or is this the beginning of the end for the Plantagenets? A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Written and hosted by Dan Jones Producer - Georgia Mills Executive Producer - Louisa Field Assistant producer: Harry Gordon Production Manager - Jen Mistri Marketing - Kieran Lancini Sound Design - Chris O'Shaughnessy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On a spring evening in London a crowd of young men stream into a grand hall at the Palace of Westminster to the sound of Minstrels playing.
0:16.6	There are nearly 300 men in total.
0:19.7	They're wealthy, fit, and dressed in dazzling golden robes.
0:25.0	They're slightly bruised and tired,
0:28.0	but in high spirits because they're coming to the end of a truly epic weekend.
0:35.0	Bonne Me is in the air.
0:37.0	New best friends clap each other on the shoulders and roar with laughter.
0:42.0	There are bear hugs and high fives all round. These boys are on
0:48.5	top of the world and they want everyone to know it.
0:53.4	It's giving high school reunion,
0:55.9	frat party, the end of a bachelor weekend in Vegas.
1:02.1	As they file into the hall in Westminster, stressed out servants hurry around.
1:07.0	The palace staff have had a long weekend too, but one of intense work rather than pleasure. Hours of toil in the kitchens have been building
1:16.9	towards a grand feast. Messing up isn't an option. No one wants to answer to the man organizing this shindig.
1:27.0	Edward I, the King of England.
1:32.0	Edward, aka Longshanks, A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. the Hammer of the Scots, is the fifth King of the Plantagenets.
1:41.0	The dynasty who have ruled England for over 150 years. As of this month, May
1:49.2	1306, Edward himself has reined for 33 and a half of those.
1:56.2	He has a reputation as a fearsome and merciless warrior, and he's butted heads with rebel barons, Muslim sultans, French kings, Welsh princes, and the Scottish
2:08.2	rebel William Wallace.
2:11.6	More often than not, Edward has come out of these fights on top, and his enemies have come out of them in lots of little pieces.
2:19.0	But now he's almost 67 years old.
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