Season 6 | 10. The Black Prince

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Edward III’s son and heir, the Black Prince, rides through France in a reign of terror and destruction. He aims to goad the King of France into a fully fledged battle. When the French King finally reveals his hand, that battle suddenly seems like a very bad idea. Find out more about Proton Mail at proton.me/thisishistory 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 Production Manager - Eric Ryan Marketing - Kieran Lancini Sound Design - Amber Devereux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh hello, strangers. I'm Alice Fraser, your guide to the galaxies, goblins, dungeons and dystopias.
0:06.2	We'll be hurling ourselves into an weekly hero's journey through realms unknown into the dark but sensual heart of all our favourite speculative fictions.
0:15.2	We'll navigate the wild realms created by brilliant authors, filmmakers, game designers and more.
0:20.9	New episodes drop every week on your podcast app or on YouTube.
0:25.2	Do not resist the call to adventure chosen one.
0:28.1	Join me for realms unknown.
0:30.1	You can hear and smell the fires before you see them.
0:37.3	The village of Montclair, just outside the borders of Gascany, is an inferno.
0:43.5	Everything that can be set alight has been.
0:47.6	Thatch and timber-framed houses, barns and stables, haystacks and hedgerows,
0:52.8	they're all roaring and crackling,
0:56.0	sending plumes of thick black smoke and glowing cinders dancing in the air.
1:02.0	It's the autumn of 1355, and the Black Prince, eldest son of the Plantagenet King of England, Edward III,
1:10.0	looks on his work with a demonic
1:12.5	sort of pride.
1:16.8	He does so from a distance.
1:19.1	The 25-year-old prince gave the command to set this village ablaze, but like everyone else,
1:24.7	he's had to retreat from the ferocity of the burning.
1:28.1	The flames are so hot that nothing can survive within the village, and the closest anyone
1:33.4	can get to it is hundreds of yards away in the open fields all around.
1:39.7	But that feels close enough.
1:42.4	The black prince doesn't need to inspect every detail of his handiwork.
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