Dan Jones
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3,287 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Dan Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um what is that?
I wonder if you can get down into that
that elemental part of the Arthurian tradition, why is it r so rooted in landscape?
Why do so many people look at so many features and and not just say, Yep, nice hill, decent lake, but like that's the hill.
That's the lake.
That's where this kind of this this this great hero, be he supernatural, political, a a freedom fighter or whatever he may be, that's where it all went down.
It's just such a pleasure hearing you tell these stories.
And we've only barely scratched the surface of all the amazing stories that you tell in in your book.
And and one of the things I loved about it so much is the way that you you seamlessly move from these beautiful retellings and re and imaginings of the the stories themselves into this sort of the the the
The perfect analysis that you've demonstrated talking to us today.
And we haven't even talked about the amazing illustrations.
I mean, you're such a wonderful artist, and this book is is full it's a beautiful item.
It's full of of gorgeous illustrations as well.
So uh to listeners, viewers, uh you can get Arthur A New Life by Amy Jeffs in bookstores and libraries from Thursday, September the 10th in the UK.
Um now for my royal favourites, and this is History Plus subscribers, stick around.
Because Amy and I are going to talk about Amy's favourite weird and wonderful moments of the Middle Ages.
That's on our bonus episode, which you can hear on Patreon and other places as well.
Next week's edition of This Is History in Conversation is with the award-winning film director, Paul Greengrass.
So please join us for that.
Paul will be discussing his latest film, The Uprising, which is all about the
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