Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by the release of this week's episode! Andy Bowman from the Geek 101 and Monkey Off My Backlog podcasts joins me to discuss Richard Loncraine's explosive 1995 adaptation of Shakespeare's RICHARD III, featuring a breakout performance from Ian McKellan as the Bard's nastiest villain. This sets the story in an alternate history version of WWII era London, and doesn't skimp on modern-era sex, violence, and style. 

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Without the actual body of Richard III whose shallow grave was long lost to history centuries ago, scholars have used texts, like Shakespeare, to try and find evidence for the truth about what actually happened to Richard III. For one team of archaeologists, however, it was not enough to leave the sinister Richard III lost to history with more questions than answers. So in 2012, in conjunction with the Richard III Society, a team of ambitious archaeologists led by Mathew Morris at the University of Leicester Archaeological Services working with the Leicester City Council mounted an extraordinary effort to locate the final resting place of Richard III, and discover the truth about his body, his death, and his grave. Remarkably, Mathew and his team did locate Richard III’s body, and on the very first day of their project. Mathew Morris joins us today to share about this historical find, the truth about Richard III’s twisted spine, and to explain why one of the most notorious Kings of England was doing buried beneath an English car park.

The story of the York brothers is part of the story of the English throne. I’m so grateful to Thomas Penn for his wealth of research on the relationships of these brothers. 

We typically think of the Wars of the Roses as a cousins’ war, which at times it was. We think of it as York versus Lancaster, which is part of it. But it’s also the story of the three York brothers, of York versus York, brother versus brother, uncle versus nephew. And I think an important and usually overlooked element of the story is the brother we don’t usually think about: George.

When George does show up in the story, he’s typically dismissed as feckless or weak. He’s a malcontent who betrays his brother Edward and then betrays his father-in-law Warwick. He’s most remembered for the method of his death: he’s rumored to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine.

I think there’s more to George than that. And I think taking a closer look at George might give us a little bit of insight into the choice Richard makes after Edward’s death.

 This week we head back to February and our trip to Leicester’s King Richard III Visitor Centre. Now King Richard III has a bit of a reputation and Laura is NOT a fan, but will she change her mind by the end of the trip?

Listen out for contributions from the brilliant Jed the Just and Jan, who provide some legitimate facts, and the kind man in the cathedral.

 A big thank you to the team at the King Richard III Visitor Centre too for letting us record at their venue.

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Richard III

R.J. Rushdoony

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