The Book Club: Charles Spencer on Henry I's lost ship
Best of the Spectator · The Spectator
June 16, 202134m 52s
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Show Notes
<div>This week's Book Club podcast guest is Charles Spencer, whose book <em>The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream </em>is new out in paperback. On the pod tells Sam Leith why his story is like "<em>Game of Thrones </em>meets <em>Titanic</em>", about the piety and the startling cruelty of medieval kings, the tantalising suggestion that the wreck of the White Ship may have been found off Barfleur -- and how this 12th-century maritime disaster changed the course of English history.</div>
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