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Armada: 12 Days to Save England episode 3

Armada: 12 Days to Save England episode 3

Armada: 12 Days to Save England episode 3 – The final episode of a three-part drama-documentary series telling the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588. Newly discovered documents reveal a remarkable web of misunderstandings that stopped the Spanish from invading, and show how the English victory forged the reputation of Elizabeth.     Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow boards a yacht on the English channel to get a sense of the naval battle, revealing how tensions between […]

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Armada: 12 Days to Save England episode 2

Armada: 12 Days to Save England episode 2

Armada: 12 Days to Save England episode 2: Dan Snow relives fierce sea battles and looks behind the scenes in the court of Elizabeth I as the Spanish fleet prepares for invasion.     In the second part of a major three-part drama-documentary series, Anita Dobson stars as Elizabeth I, and Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588. Using newly discovered documents, Dan relives the fierce battles at sea and we go behind the scenes in the royal court of Elizabeth as the Spanish fleet

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Armada: 12 Days to Save England episode 1

Armada: 12 Days to Save England episode 1

Armada: 12 Days to Save England episode 1 – In the first part of a major three-part drama documentary series, Anita Dobson stars as Elizabeth I, and Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588. Newly discovered documents take us right inside the Spanish Armada for the very first time and reveal a missed opportunity that could have spelled the end of Tudor England.     Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan

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Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary – Drama revealing the intimate and ultimately deadly relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, using the words of the two queens and their courtiers.     Of all the dangers Elizabeth I had to survive – the Spanish Armada, a Catholic continent plotting against her incessantly, restless nobles uneasy at serving a queen who refused to marry – none was so personally intense as her rivalry with another woman – her cousin and fellow queen, Mary, Queen of Scots. This was her longest, most gruelling battle – lasting over two decades,

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Elizabeth I's Secret Agents episode 3

Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents episode 3

Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents episode 3: Elizabeth I is dead and King James of Scotland travels south to take the throne at the invitation of Robert Cecil. Meanwhile, John Gerard, a Catholic priest who has dedicated his life to the destruction of the Protestant state that developed in Elizabeth’s England, has escaped and made contact with a splinter cell in the Catholic underground containing an extremist called Guy Fawkes, who has a plan to blow up parliament with the king inside.     Cecil hears about the gunpowder plot, but is unaware of when and how they will strike, and

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Elizabeth I's Secret Agents episode 2

Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents episode 2

Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents episode 2: Robert Cecil is the son of Elizabeth I’s original spymaster. He has been groomed since birth to inherit his father’s network but when he finally steps into his father’s shoes, the queen’s enemies are stronger than ever and Cecil must also watch his back. The Earl of Essex has established a rival network and is trying to oust Cecil as Elizabeth’s spymaster.     Essex is everything Cecil is not. Cecil is bent-backed and under five foot tall. Essex is an athlete and a war hero who flirts with the queen. But the two

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Elizabeth I's Secret Agents episode 1

Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents episode 1

Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents episode 1: A look at the secret network behind Queen Elizabeth I’s 40-year reign and the world’s first secret service run by her spymasters Robert and William Cecil.     In this episode, we find England alone – a Protestant nation in a largely Catholic Europe. Then, 12 years into Elizabeth’s reign, the pope declares her a heretic, which in the hearts of England’s Catholics gives them permission to kill her. Queen Elizabeth looks to her spymaster William Cecil to stop the Catholic assassins getting through. Cecil establishes a huge espionage network – England’s first secret

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A History of Scotland episode 5 - Project Britain

A History of Scotland episode 5 – Project Britain

A History of Scotland episode 5 – Project Britain: Neil Oliver describes how the ambitions of two of Scotland’s Stuart monarchs were the driving force that united two ancient enemies, and set them on the road to the Great Britain we know today.     While Mary Queen of Scots plotted to usurp Elizabeth I and seize the throne of England, her son James dreamt of a more radical future: a Protestant Great Britain.   A History of Scotland episode 5 – Project Britain   Mary, Queen of Scots Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587),

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