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23 MAR

Elizabeth I: Warrior (Part 2)

When the most powerful empire in Europe sends an Armada to invade your country, what do you do? In this episode of our trilogy on Elizabeth I, we reach the moment everyone associates with England’s most famous queen: the looming threat of the Spanish Armada. But the great showdown of 1588 did not arrive out of nowhere. It was the result of years of political intrigue, espionage, religious tension — and a dangerous rivalry with Philip II of Spain. Along the way we meet the other woman whose shadow hung over Elizabeth’s reign: Mary, Queen of Scots. Was she a genuine threat to the English throne, or a prisoner whose existence fuelled a web of plots and paranoia? From the murky world of spies and codebreakers to the dramatic fallout of the Babington Plot, Elizabeth’s government was constantly balancing mercy, survival and ruthless political calculation. Then comes the crisis that would define the age. As Spain’s vast armada sails towards England, Elizabeth faces the greatest challenge of her reign — and delivers the famous rallying cry at Tilbury, declaring that though she has the body of a “weak and feeble woman”, she has the heart and stomach of a king. The defeat of the Armada would become one of the most powerful myths in English history. Yet as we discover, the reality was far messier — with further armadas, failed invasions, and an emerging English maritime power that would shape the world in ways both triumphant and troubling. Next time: the Virgin Queen’s most personal battlefield — her love life, her suitors, and the political game of marriage that defined the rest of her reign. Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Bella Soames Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Content Editor: Joseph Palmer Executive Producer: Bella Soames A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Sign up to Palace Confidential, the FREE royals newsletter from the Mail's top experts. Delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday, it's the smartest way to stay in the royal inner circle. Just head to dailymail.co.uk/palaceconfidential to sign up today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23 Mar

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37 min
16 MAR

Elizabeth I: Survivor (Part 1)

She was born a princess and declared a bastard before she could walk. In this episode, we go back to the beginning of Elizabeth I: a child of extraordinary promise, born into splendour, then cast into uncertainty by the fall of her mother, Anne Boleyn. Courtly favour turned to suspicion. Affection turned to danger. And survival became a skill learned early. From the shadow of Henry VIII’s volatile court to the careful education that shaped her formidable intellect, this is the story of a girl navigating power long before she wore a crown. Stepmothers rose and fell. Brothers and sisters shifted in rank and religion. Every alliance mattered. Every silence mattered more. This is the first of three deep dives into the Virgin Queen, beginning with the precarious childhood that forged one of history’s most enduring rulers. Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams explore the instability, calculation, and emotional discipline that defined Elizabeth’s early years and ask how a child declared illegitimate grew into a monarch who would outlast them all. Was her resilience instinct? Training? Or the necessary armour of a Tudor princess who learned, very young, that survival was everything? Hosts: Robert Hardman and Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Bella Soames Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Content Editor: Joseph Palmer Executive Producer: Bella Soames A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Sign up to Palace Confidential, the FREE royals newsletter from the Mail's top experts. Delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday, it's the smartest way to stay in the royal inner circle. Just head to dailymail.co.uk/palaceconfidential to sign up today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

16 Mar

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28 min
1 DAY AGO

Elizabeth I: Love & Death (Part 3)

When you receive more than twenty-six proposals from Europe’s most powerful men, why should you refuse them all? In this final episode of our trilogy on Elizabeth I, we step into the most personal — and most politically dangerous — question of her reign: marriage. From the moment she becomes queen, Elizabeth is treated as a prize. Kings, princes and emperors line up to claim her, each proposal promising alliance and stability. At the centre of it all stands Robert Dudley: not a king, nor even a prince, but the man Elizabeth trusts most. Their closeness is undeniable. Yet when Dudley’s wife is found dead at the bottom of a staircase, everything changes. Suspicion, scandal and political fear close the door on the one match that might have been possible. From there, the suitors keep coming. Philip of Spain lingers in the background. Eric of Sweden writes devoted letters. Archduke Charles offers power and heirs. And finally, the Duke of Anjou arrives in person — young, charming, and bearing gifts, including the famous frog-shaped earrings that delight the queen. For a moment, it seems Elizabeth might finally choose. But every option carries risk. Marriage could mean losing control of her kingdom. A husband might claim authority. A child might replace her. Around her, advisors push, Parliament demands, and the shadow of Mary, Queen of Scots looms ever larger. As the years pass, the question shifts. It is no longer who Elizabeth will marry — but whether she ever intended to marry at all. And as we follow her story to its final days — her long decline, her refusal even to lie down, and the quiet gesture that signals her successor — we see the ultimate consequence of that decision. No husband. No heir. Just a legacy powerful enough to outlast them all. Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Bella Soames Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Content Editor: Joseph Palmer Executive Producer: Bella Soames A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Sign up to Palace Confidential, the FREE royals newsletter from the Mail's top experts. Delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday, it's the smartest way to stay in the royal inner circle. Just head to dailymail.co.uk/palaceconfidential to sign up today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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30 min
5 DAYS AGO

Burning Down of the BBC and Illegal Assassins

On this week’s episode, Peter would like to know why we suddenly think it’s okay to assassinate people again and Sarah is asking why would anyone want to clasp the poisoned chalice that is DG of the BBC? And the pair pore over our latest mailbag to talk about the unblinking horror of war, the justice system and Lucy Letby and dead guests at dinner parties (don’t hold your breath waiting on an invitation from Peter, no-one’s getting in his house). On our reading and watch list this week: · A Variety of Lives: Biography of Sir Hugh Greene - Michael Tracey · Rogue Male - Geoffrey Household · Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - Rebecca West · Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War – R.M. Douglas · A Woman In Berlin – Marta Hillers Please do get in touch, email: Alas@dailymail.co.uk you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on Whatsapp – on 07796 657512, start your message with the word ‘alas’. Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens Producer: Philip Wilding Editor: Chelsey Moore Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Jamie East A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular To get in touch email alas@mailonline.co.uk, you can leave a comment on Spotify or even send us a voice note on WhatsApp - on 07796 657512 start your message with the word 'alas' Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens Producer: Phillip Wilding Editor: Chelsey Moore Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Jamie East A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

5 days ago

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36 min
9 MAR

Hamnet: The Truth Behind The Oscar-Winner

Shakespeare, Hollywood, the Oscars, the plague, and a little boy called Hamnet. In this episode of Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things, Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams are joined by historian Alice Loxton to explore the extraordinary new film Hamnet — the Oscar-tipped adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel. Set in late 16th-century Stratford-upon-Avon and plague-stricken London, the film imagines the private world of William Shakespeare, his wife Anne Hathaway — here called Agnes — and their three children. When their son Hamnet dies in 1596, the story asks a haunting question: did that loss shape the creation of the play Hamlet? We explore Tudor childbirth, superstition and healing, the realities of plague in Elizabethan England, and the fragile line between history and imagination. Who was Anne Hathaway really? A healer? A neglected wife? A woman left to manage home and grief while her husband built a theatrical empire? Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Content Editor: Joseph Palmer Executive Producer: Bella Soames A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Sign up to Palace Confidential, the FREE royals newsletter from the Mail's top experts. Delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday, it's the smartest way to stay in the royal inner circle. Just head to dailymail.co.uk/palaceconfidential to sign up today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

9 Mar

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33 min
2 MAR

The Kennedy Curse - Part 3

The Kennedy Curse didn't end with the assassination of JFK - far from it! In this final episode of our Kennedy trilogy, we ask what happened after Camelot fell. With John F. Kennedy gone and Robert Kennedy gunned down just five years later, the dynasty’s hopes shifted once more — to the younger generation. Could the flame stay lit? Or was tragedy now woven into the Kennedy name itself? From Ted Kennedy and the shadow of Chappaquiddick, to Jackie’s controversial marriage to Aristotle Onassis, and the rise — and devastating fall — of John F. Kennedy Jr., this is the story of heirs burdened by expectation, fame, and a family legacy unlike any other. Plane crashes. Scandals. Political ambition. And one final, haunting echo of a mother’s warning: never fly your own plane. Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams explore the weight carried by the next generation — the pressure to redeem the past, the struggle to escape it, and the events that cemented the idea of a “Kennedy curse” in the public imagination. Is it fate? Is it recklessness? Or is it simply the peril of living so visibly, so ambitiously, and so publicly for over a century? Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Bella Soames Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Content Editor: Joseph Palmer Executive Producer: Bella Soames A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Sign up to Palace Confidential, the FREE royals newsletter from the Mail's top experts. Delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday, it's the smartest way to stay in the royal inner circle. Just head to dailymail.co.uk/palaceconfidential to sign up today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2 Mar

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35 min
16 FEB

The Kennedy Curse - Part 1

JFK’s assassination, plane crashes, scandals, and untimely deaths. Is there really such a thing as a Kennedy curse? In this first of three special episodes, we go back to the beginning — to the making of a dynasty, forged in ambition and driven by a patriarch who expected greatness and tolerated nothing less. In the Kennedy household, sons were groomed for the presidency, daughters for perfection, and failure was not merely disappointing… it was unthinkable. Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams unravel the astonishing rise of this Irish-American family from immigrant roots to global prominence, exploring the wealth, political muscle, wartime heroics and ruthless determination that built the Kennedy legend — and the immense personal pressure that came with it. Before the building of a modern Camelot, before Dallas, there was a family determined to conquer America - but at what cost? Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Bella Soames Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Content Editor: Joseph Palmer Executive Producer: Bella Soames A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Sign up to Palace Confidential, the FREE royals newsletter from the Mail's top experts. Delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday, it's the smartest way to stay in the royal inner circle. Just head to dailymail.co.uk/palaceconfidential to sign up today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

16 Feb

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33 min
19 FEB

The Fall of The House of York, with Andrew Lownie

Today, police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The former Duke of York can be questioned and held without charge for up to 24 hours from the moment he arrived at the police station this morning. Andrew's new home - Wood Farm on the King’s Sandringham estate - is currently being searched by Thames Valley Police, along with his former residence, Royal Lodge in Windsor. As this story continues to unfold, we're bringing you a previous edition of Deep Dive, in which Sarah Vine sat down with historian and author Andrew Lownie, whose revelatory book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York set much of what we're witnessing today in sharp relief. A Daily Mail Production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

19 Feb

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35 min
23 MAR

Food Noise is a Horrendous Thing to Live With: Ruth Corden on Fatphobia and Weight Loss Jabs

Regular listeners will know this is not a podcast where we glamorise weight loss stories or before-and-after pictures. As someone with a long history of eating disorders, I’ve spent years rejecting the idea that our worth lives and dies on the bathroom scales. But in this episode, I sit down with Ruth Corden to talk about what it means when healing your relationship with your body does involve losing weight – and how to do that without feeding fatphobic bullsh*t. Ruth talks honestly about living in a fat body, food addiction, “food noise”, and starting semaglutide – not as a vanity project, but as a lifeline for her health and sanity. We get into thin privilege, weaponised body positivity, fertility grief, shame in the GP’s office, and how lifting heavy weights helped her finally feel at home in her skin. It’s not a weight loss story. It’s a story about finally inhabiting the body you live in. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU Got something to share? Message us on @lifeofbryonypod on Instagram. If this episode resonated with you, please share it with someone who might need it – it really helps! Bryony xx CREDITS: Host: Bryony Gordon Guest: Ruth Corden Producer: Laura Elwood-Craig Assistant Producer: Sam Rhodes Studio Manager: Sam Chisholm Editor: Luke Shelley Exec Producer: Jamie East A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

23 Mar

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53 min
4 DAYS AGO

The Life of You – Ruth Corden on Trash TV, Tough Workouts and Two Awesome Siblings

Ruth Corden is back and after our main conversation about bodies, food and self-worth, it felt only right to ask Ruth about the three things she leans on to stay vaguely sane in this ridiculous world. We get into the TV show she’s obsessively loyal to, the thing that leaves her with DOMS but also a much clearer head, and the lifelong relationships that hold her together when everything else feels wobbly. If you’ve ever wondered what really keeps someone going behind the big conversations, this one is for you. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU Got something to share? Message us on @lifeofbryonypod on Instagram. If this episode resonated with you, please share it with someone who might need it – it really helps! Bryony xx CREDITS: Host: Bryony Gordon Guest: Ruth Corden Producer: Laura Elwood-Craig Assistant Producer: Sam Rhodes Studio Manager: Sam Chisholm Editor: Luke Shelley Exec Producer: Jamie East A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

4 days ago

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15 min

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