
House of Tudor
The House of Tudor was a royal house of largely Welsh and English origin that held the English throne from 1485 to 1603. They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd and Catherine of France.
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Catherine of Aragon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish Infanta so prized by the Tudors that, after her first husband the Prince of Wales died, she went on to marry his brother Henry VIII.
13 February 2025
Featuring: Lucy Wooding, Maria Hayward, Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer
The 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
CultureFounders of English schools and collegesPeople excommunicated by the Catholic ChurchEnglish people of Welsh descentHouse of TudorPrisoners in the Tower of LondonBurials at Westminster AbbeyEnglish AnglicansPeople of the Elizabethan eraEnglish women poets16th-century queens regnant16th-century English women16th-century English translatorsThe Tudor State
Melvyn Bragg discusses the role of the Tudor dynasty in reshaping the British state and whether their government of England laid the political foundations of our own age.
26 October 2000
Featuring: John Guy, Christopher Haigh, Christine Carpenter