Professor Marion Turner

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759 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 29 May

Professor Marion Turner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But he's living there.

That's why he gets buried there, because he lives there.

Not because Poets' Corner existed there.

Yeah, there was no Poets' Corner at the time.

Yeah, I mean, it would have been more normal for him to have been buried in St Margaret's Westminster.

He must have had a good relationship with the monks for them to bury him there.

But it's because he lives there and it's later his tomb gets moved and Poets' Corner gets started.

But yes, certainly in the last year of his life, we see him writing a poem to the new king asking for his money.

Yeah.

Yeah, Complaint to His Purse.

We don't know.

Let's have it.

We don't know the day that he died.

The date of his death is traditionally given in October 1400.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

But that's just because that's when he doesn't get his allowance.

Right.

We don't know.

That's when the records tell us he's not there anymore.

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