Episode 70
Tudor Box Set Binge
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb shares a few personal recommendations of movies and TV series depicting the Tudor and Elizabethan eras for you to re-discover this festive season. She also casts a particular eye over Shekhar Kapur's 1998 film, Elizabeth.
Not Just the Tudors · History Hit
December 16, 202132m 1s
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Show Notes
<p>If you are planning your television viewing over the holidays, especially if you are looking forward to bingeing on the best Tudor dramas and classic film depictions of the era, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb has a few personal recommendations of movies and TV series for you to re-discover this festive season. </p><br><p>And in the second part of the podcast, she casts an eye over the 1998 Shekhar Kapur film <em>Elizabeth</em>, which starred an Oscar-nominated Cate Blanchett as the eponymous monarch. It was undoubtedly dazzling to look at, but how did the film stand up as historical fact?</p><br><p>Keep up to date with everything early modern, from Henry VIII to the Sistine Chapel with our Tudor Tuesday newsletter: <a href="https://www.historyhit.com/sign-up-to-history-hit/?utm_source=timelinenewsletter&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=Timeline+Podcast+Campaign" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe here</a></p>
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