Episodes

  • Episode 321: Trouble in Germany

    Episode 321: Trouble in Germany
    Oct 11 2024
    James I desperately wanted to marry his son, Charles, to the Spanish Princess. However, when his son-in-law, Frederick of the Palatinate, becomes embroiled in what will become the Thirty Years War, that goal seems more and more distant by the minute.

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    24 mins
  • The Bible: A Global History

    The Bible: A Global History
    Oct 9 2024
    A global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book.

    For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and seen the Bible through its own language and culture.

    In The Bible, Bruce Gordon tells the astounding story of the Bible’s journey around the globe and across more than two thousand years, showing how it has shaped and been shaped by changing beliefs and believers’ radically different needs. The Bible has been a tool for violence and oppression, and it has expressed hopes for liberation. God speaks with one voice, but the people who receive it are scattered and divided—found in desert monasteries and Chinese house churches, in Byzantine cathedrals and Guatemalan villages.

    Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible tells the story of this sacred book through the stories of its many and diverse human encounters, revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.

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    52 mins
  • Episode 320: King and Parliament

    Episode 320: King and Parliament
    Oct 4 2024
    The Stuart dynasty did NOT have a good relationship with the English Parliament. That begins with King James I.

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    25 mins
  • Aesop's Fables: A New Translation

    Aesop's Fables: A New Translation
    Oct 1 2024
    Aesop’s fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like “The Tortoise and the Hare,” “The Dog in the Manger,” and “Sour Grapes” have captivated us for generations. The fables delight us and teach timeless truths. Aesop’s tales offer us a world fundamentally simpler to ours—one with clear good and plain evil—but nonetheless one that is marked by political nuance and literary complexity.

    Newly translated and annotated by renowned scholar Robin Waterfield, this definitive translation shines a new light on four hundred of Aesop’s most enduring fables.

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    40 mins
  • Episode 319: The Gunpowder Plot

    Episode 319: The Gunpowder Plot
    Sep 27 2024
    Guy Fawkes et al decide to blow up King James I and the English Parliament. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work...

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    24 mins
  • Episode 318: James I

    Episode 318: James I
    Sep 20 2024
    The end of the reign of Elizabeth I ends the Tudor dynasty. James I becomes the first of the short-lived Stuart line. His reign begins with no shortage of economic headaches.

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    27 mins
  • Episode 317: Henry IV of France

    Episode 317: Henry IV of France
    Sep 13 2024
    Henry of Navarre spends several years fighting for the crown of France, converts to Catholicism (again), and issues the famous Edict of Nantes.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 316: The End of Tudor England

    Episode 316: The End of Tudor England
    Sep 6 2024
    Few dynasties have had the impact on a modern state more so than the Tudors on England. Yet, the dynasty lasted hardly more than a century. Elizabeth I, the second born daughter of Henry VIII, who reigned after her younger brother and elder sister, would prove to be the final name on the list. Today we finish her story as the sun sets on Tudor England.

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    55 mins