The Real Lady Macbeth with Val McDermid

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Lady Macbeth is best known to us as Shakespeare’s scheming, sleepwalking villain. But, as with most of his so-called history plays, Shakespeare’s version of the Macbeths is largely fictional.

Dr. Eleanor Janega talks to the best-selling crime writer - and Gone Medieval fan - Val McDermid who has dragged the truth about the real Queen Macbeth out of the shadows to reveal a woman caught up in the patriarchal prejudices and vicious political intrigues of her time.

Gone Medieval is presented by Dr. Eleanor Janega. The audio editor and producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.

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1:34.6	Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanor Yonaga, and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit,
1:39.6	the podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history.
1:43.8	We uncover the greatest mysteries, the gobsmacking details, and the latest groundbreaking research
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2:09.3	A thousand years ago, in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three
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