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We Elizabethans
Monday - Friday 24-28 March, 11.00am
Two societies and two Queens, separated by four centuries and all the detritus of history that lies between - but revisionist Oxford historian Christopher Haigh sees parallels, connections and coincidences that bring us together in a similar Elizabethan experience. Just how Elizabethan are we, and how like us were the Elizabethans?
The presenter is Dr Christopher Haigh - he's an expert on Elizabeth and a sell out lecturer and public communicator. He has appeared as a guest on “In Our Time” and “What If?”, he has been consultant to Timewatch and has presented an ITV Schools History Series about the Tudors. He is Head of the History Faculty Board at Oxford.
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Elizabethan Subjects
Monday - Friday 24-28 March, 3.45pm
Five part series in which social historian Justin Champion examines the life and times of some of Elizabeth I's more unusual subjects from criminals and migrants to prostitutes and people regarded as mad scientists. Piecing together evidence from dusty archives, diaries, court records and murder pamphlets, Justin paints an intruiging picture of the darker side of Elizabethan life..
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The Musical Triumphs and Tribulations of Oriana
Due to extended news coverage Musical Triumphs will now be broadcast on: Thursday, 17 April 2003, 11.30am
Elizabeth I is regarded as the most generous musical patron England has ever seen. Terry Edwards investigates the cultural, political and religious upheavals of the period and the ways in which they changed the course of musical history.
Terry Edwards reveals the way in which music for the church was shaped by Elizabeth’s reforms, and music for the court was adopted as a marketing tool to promote the image of queen and country.
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The Discovery of England
Thursday 27 March, 11.30am
By the time of her death in 1601, Queen Elizabeth I had presided over an exciting flowering of culture that shaped our image of Englishness forever. Before Elizabeth it would have been unthinkable for a writer to celebrate 'this sceptered isle' or to imagine Britain as an 'island fortress'. Under her rule, this kind of imagery was common currency. In this three part series Jonathan Bate, one of the country’s foremost Shakespearean scholars, shows how the Elizabethans "discovered England".
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The Thistle and the Rose
Thursday 27 March, 8.00pm
When Mary Queen of Scots was ‘lighter’ of a fine son, Prince James, Elizabeth Tudor complained bitterly that she, the queen of England, was nothing but a barren stock. Yet in the years to come, with Mary in Elizabeth’s captivity, the tables would be turned in a cruel and subtle way. Mary’s own motherless son would betray her, opening a correspondence with her jailer, in which he addressed not Mary, but the Queen of England as ‘Madame and Mother’. How could such a thing come to pass?
BBC - Radio 4 The thistle and the Rose - Elizabth 1 and James Vl
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Archive Hour
Saturday 29 March, 8.00pm
Joan Bakewell chooses the highlights of the Elizabethan season marking the 400 years since the death of Queen Elizabeth the First, a range of programmes which draws parallels between the sixteenth century and today.
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals and Queens
Monday 31 March - Friday 4 April, 9.45am (repeated at 12.30am)
‘Elizabeth and Mary’, Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn will be the Book of the Week from March 31st – April 4th. Radio 4 is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth 1st with an Elizabethan week from March 24th, and ‘Elizabeth and Mary’ will be a compliment to this.
In the first ever dual biography of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, distinguished historian and biographer Jane Dunn reveals an extraordinary story of two rival queens reigning in one isle, both with a right to the throne of England, both embodying opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness and divinely-ordained kingship.
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