Season 5 | 8. Eye for an Eye

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Isabella finds herself the target of an assassination attempt as the secret rumblings of discontent suddenly explode into full-blown rebellion. King Edward sees his chance for personal revenge and amasses his troops to hunt for his hated cousin, the most powerful rebel of all, Thomas of Lancaster. 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 Assistant producer: Harry Gordon Executive Producer - Louisa Field 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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0:43.0	Enjoy the episode. A heavy fist thuds on the gates of the Barbican outside Leeds Castle, an elegant fortified
0:58.5	palace sitting on an island in the middle of a lake. The sound echoes across the water, jarring against the stillness
1:06.6	of the surroundings. The fist knocks again, then again. There's no reply.
1:20.8	The archers and the guards in the small party look at each other uneasily.
1:25.0	This is weird. They know there's someone home.
1:29.0	Why don't they answer?
1:31.0	What's more, they can feel impatience rising off their mistress.
1:38.1	Queen Isabella, wife and consort of King Edward II, is not someone who takes kindly to being messed around.
1:47.0	They're supposed to be stopping in for the night on their way to Canterbury.
1:52.0	Leeds Castle is not, as you might expect, in Leeds.
1:56.3	It's in the heart of rural Kent, a nice midpoint on their journey from London.
2:02.4	The castle is the home of a loyal courtier called Bartholomew
2:06.2	Bedosmere and his wife Margaret Claire. As Queen Isabella expects to be greeted in style.
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