Dan Jones
speaker
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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Last hope.
It's a long-observed quirk of psychology that we humans fare quite badly with having our toys taken away.
Or to put it another way, we can deal pretty well with not having things on the whole, and
What really stings is to possess something momentarily and then to have it snatched off you.
For example, I remember a few years ago coming third in a cards tournament and being awarded the mighty sum of 10 quid.
I was over the moon, but only for about 45 seconds, because almost right away, the landlady of the pub where I was playing this high-stakes game announced that she was doing a sponsored charity walk that weekend.
The going rate to sponsor her.
Yes, that's right.
Akylie Jenner.
Now, it pinched a little, handing that £10 note straight back whence it came, but in the grand scheme of things, it wasn't so bad.
For a start, it was the launch pad to bigger and better things for me in the world of competitive cards.
But more importantly for our purposes, losing a couple of pints worth of cold hard cash pales into insignificance when we compare it to what Margaret Beaufort is going through in the 1480s.
Since Margaret was 13 years old, she's been trying to find her son a place in the world.
Just as she gets this close to pulling off her master plan, the rug is whipped out from beneath her feet.
If Edward the Fourth had lived just a year longer before dying from an excess of all kinds of pork, it's very likely that Margaret would have had Henry back in England.
He'd have been Earl of Richmond, and, subject to the right paperwork coming through, married to the king's eldest daughter.
But then, as we heard last time, in fourteen eighty three, dodgy Uncle Richard went well and truly rogue.
and Henry Tudor's rehab plan was collateral damage.
It turns out that usurping the crown and disappearing the princes in the tower isn't just a crime in its own right.
In doing it, Richard also takes a wrecking ball to England's fragile political peace.
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