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Helen Castor & Mary Wellesley: The Eagle & the Hart

Helen Castor & Mary Wellesley: The Eagle & the Hart

‘If ever a book of history was blessed with contemporary relevance, this one is’, writes Andrew O’Hagan of Helen Castor’s <em>The Eagle and the Hart</em> (Allen Lane). ‘The dumbfounding, delusional, narcissistic King Richard; the white-knuckle ride of Henry IV, dogged all the way by notions of illegitimacy. I feel these men could have been ripped from today’s headlines.’ Castor, whose 2010 book <em>She-Wolves</em> was adapted for television by the BBC, discussed Richard and Henry with Mary Wellesley, author of <em>Hidden Hands: Lives of Manuscripts and their Makers</em> and co-presenter of the medieval strand of the LRB’s Close Readings​ podcast series.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

London Review Bookshop Podcast

March 26, 20251h 5m

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‘If ever a book of history was blessed with contemporary relevance, this one is’, writes Andrew O’Hagan of Helen Castor’s The Eagle and the Hart (Allen Lane). ‘The dumbfounding, delusional, narcissistic King Richard; the white-knuckle ride of Henry IV, dogged all the way by notions of illegitimacy. I feel these men could have been ripped from today’s headlines.’ Castor, whose 2010 book She-Wolves was adapted for television by the BBC, discussed Richard and Henry with Mary Wellesley, author of Hidden Hands: Lives of Manuscripts and their Makers and co-presenter of the medieval strand of the LRB’s Close Readings​ podcast series.

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