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Marlowe
Melvyn Bragg discusses Christopher Marlowe; a forger, a brawler, a spy, but above all a playwright, a poet and the most celebrated writer of his generation.
7 July 2005
Featuring: Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonathan Bate, Emma J. Smith
CultureEnglish male poetsEnglish male dramatists and playwrightsPeople of the Elizabethan era16th-century English poetsLatin–English translators16th-century English male writersEnglish spies16th-century English translatorsEnglish Renaissance dramatists, 16th-century English dramatists and playwrightsDeaths by stabbing in England, People murdered in England, English murder victimsThe Death of Elizabeth I
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I and its immediate impact, as a foreign monarch became King in the face of plots and plague.
15 October 2009
Featuring: John Guy, Clare Jackson, Helen Hackett
CultureBurials at Westminster AbbeyEnglish AnglicansPeople of the Elizabethan eraEnglish women poetsPeople excommunicated by the Catholic ChurchEnglish people of Welsh descentPrisoners in the Tower of LondonFounders of English schools and colleges16th-century queens regnant16th-century English translatorsHouse of Tudor