Hello Hannah here and welcome to this week's Chops. Obviously I don't know what your plans

are this weekend but I'm off to look at a puppy so I hope that yours contains something

as joyful. Peggy, after a little go on a scratching post there, could you do that a different

time? Thank you. Or maybe if you listen to this podcast early enough you can spend some

of your Sunday at the British Library's fantastic exhibition Elizabeth and Mary Royal Cousins

rival queens because that is exactly what this podcast is about. I'm chatting to Curator

Doctor Andrea Clark about Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots where they were

similar where they were different and what myths about them need to go in the bin right

now. She talks me through some of the treasures on display many for the first time and has

a cracker answering the eternal question, did it really need to end with Mary's head

on the chopping block or could it have all been so different? The exhibition is on at

the British Library until February the 20th. I had a chat with Andrea off Mike and she

told me that they'd had loads of compliments from visitors about how the display was laid

out and distance which made them feel safe to be there. So if you are worried about being

outside or indeed inside in public I hope you take some encouragement from that. Until next time.

So the Tudors, very much the gateway drug to history, it's a period of history that everybody

thinks they know about because we learned about it in school but also because books, films,

TV programmes are obsessed by the Tudors. So I think a lot of people think they know the Tudors

so I wanted to start off with if you could just throw a couple of myths in the bin now what would

they be? Well for me the big one thinking specifically about Elizabeth and Mary and this is very

much based on what people have said to me when they've left the exhibition. I never realised that

they didn't actually meet. So that's one of the big ones you know they've been brought together

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