Greg Jenner

You know your stuff, don't you, Mike?

Yeah, you're spot on. Yeah, so, OK, you haven't read it, but you know that he's a bit of a character. Yeah. I mean, Mary, this is very much the Marvel Cinematic Universe of the 15th century. Here is someone trying to grapple with an enormous, sprawling collection of stories where people are rewriting, rewriting, rewriting, and he's gone, oh, we need to standardise this.

Yeah, you're spot on. Yeah, so, OK, you haven't read it, but you know that he's a bit of a character. Yeah. I mean, Mary, this is very much the Marvel Cinematic Universe of the 15th century. Here is someone trying to grapple with an enormous, sprawling collection of stories where people are rewriting, rewriting, rewriting, and he's gone, oh, we need to standardise this.

We need to bring this all into one coherent narrative, a beginning, middle and end, about King Arthur, and he dies at the end. So what is the mess that he tries to cohere?

We need to bring this all into one coherent narrative, a beginning, middle and end, about King Arthur, and he dies at the end. So what is the mess that he tries to cohere?

We call it Le Morte d'Arthur, which sounds pretty sexy. Yes, no, it wasn't called... And it was a major spoiler. Yeah, yeah, actually, that's true. You're right, actually, yeah.

We call it Le Morte d'Arthur, which sounds pretty sexy. Yes, no, it wasn't called... And it was a major spoiler. Yeah, yeah, actually, that's true. You're right, actually, yeah.

So it's just before the Tudor era. It's right at the end of the Middle Ages.

So it's just before the Tudor era. It's right at the end of the Middle Ages.

You can check out.

You can check out.

He was the sort of first great printer in English, the English language. And so Le Morte d'Arthur is his sort of rebrand of this great text. Mallory is a politician. He's a sort of... Sheriff. He does some bad stuff. He ends up in prison. So tell us, who was he?

He was the sort of first great printer in English, the English language. And so Le Morte d'Arthur is his sort of rebrand of this great text. Mallory is a politician. He's a sort of... Sheriff. He does some bad stuff. He ends up in prison. So tell us, who was he?

Yes. So Le Morte d'Arthur is a sort of compendium of stories. We break it down into eight tales.

Yes. So Le Morte d'Arthur is a sort of compendium of stories. We break it down into eight tales.

It's got 150, hasn't it?

It's got 150, hasn't it?

Yeah, a good round number.

Yeah, a good round number.

And it's worth just saying also that Galahad sits on the siege perilous, the sort of the scary chair. Yes, he's the dude, isn't he?