Sir Edward Coke, prosecutor of Guy Fawkes

Great Lives

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sir Edward Coke was born in Norfolk in 1552.

He's best known as a judge and Parliamentarian, the link says Jesse Norman between Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights.

He was also, the programme claims, an occasionally appalling human being who used his own daughter in a marriage deal to buy himself favour with the King.

Joining Jesse Norman, and presenter Ian Hislop, in the studio, and often backing up his claims for Coke's greatness, is Dr Alexandra Gajda of Oxford University.

Jesse Norman is a government minister, former paymaster general and one time financial secretary to the Treasury.

Producer: Miles Warde

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2023.

Transcript

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0:14.2	Banksy.
0:15.0	Apparently, I've met him twice.
0:16.6	The Banksy story.
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0:24.3	Listen on BBC Science.
0:26.9	BBC Science, music, radio, podcasts.
0:31.9	Sir Edward Cook is not, perhaps, a famous name in our history,
0:36.7	but that may be all about to change.
0:39.5	According to the big obvious biographical sources,
0:42.5	Cook was a 16, 17th century lawyer and politician.
0:46.3	For a while, he was speak of the House of Commons.
0:48.7	He led the prosecution in the trials of Sir Walter Rally
0:51.7	and the conspirators of the gunpowder plot.
0:54.5	Later, he defended the supremacy of the common law
0:57.4	against the Stuart claims of royal prerogative.
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