THIS IS HISTORY... SEASON FINALE!... AND NEW EPISODES!
What would you like to see in future episodes of my Plantagenets podcast?
Thanks to everyone who has been listening to my twice-weekly Plantagenet podcast, This Is History: A Dynasty To Die For. This week marks the end of the first season, with episodes 23 and 24 explaining how Henry II’s reign comes to a dramatic/tragic conclusion.
If you’ve been listening to the podcast (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify etc) then I hope you’ve enjoyed our approach to telling the Plantagenet story afresh. I’ve been musing that if I were to write my book The Plantagenets again today, there are lots of things that I’d change about it, based on the way we put the podcast narrative together.
Of course, I’m not going to rewrite that book. BUT - we are going to return with another season of This Is History early in the New Year!
We’re also going to produce some standalone bonus episodes, in which I’ll be talking to other medieval experts about the wider world of the Plantagenets, as well as answering questions from listeners.
As the podcast develops next year, we are going to make this a regular part of the show. So my question to you is - who or what would you like to hear featured in the bonus episodes? Let your imagination run riot… answers in the comments section below, or hit me up on Twitter using the hashtag #dansplaining.
Completely unrelated to this, I’m off jousting tomorrow, so will send you an update on how that goes, later in the week.
Until then… stay frosty…
dan
Could we have a few episodes on Richard The Lionheart please? Some on his time in Sicily and Cyprus. Of course his time in the Holy Land and what happened between then and his death. Thanks.
I just binged all of season 1 and I loved it- I learned so much that I did not know- especially about William Marshall and the Young King.
One question - about Thomas Becket…years ago I read a book called the Quest for Becket’s Bones. Theory was that his relics were too sacred and important for the monks to turn them over to Cromwell and his henchmen- so they hid him in the Cathedral.
Where he remains to this day.
Any thoughts? And would that make an interesting episode?