Rosemary Hill
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490 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Rosemary Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hello, I'm Rosemary Hill.
Welcome to London Revisited, a close reading series for the London Review of Books and today I'm joined again by Vanessa Harding.
Hello Vanessa, welcome.
At the end of our last episode, we talked about the death of Queen Elizabeth, who died in 1603, leaving no clear instructions about her heir.
So we now begin with James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England, a new monarch, a new age, and a particularly turbulent period in London's history, even by the standards of what's gone before.
We'll see London preparing to be besieged for the first time since the Middle Ages.
We will see the entire country torn by civil war.
By the end of the period we're going to talk about today, Britain had become a republic.
And out of this extraordinary tumultuous period, we hear one of the most eloquent voices of the age, that of John Milton, writing in 1644 against censorship.
Milton was a Londoner and a parliamentarian.
He was writing in defence of free speech.
envisaging the ideal of London as it might emerge from the turbulence of the 1640s.
But before we get there, let's go back to the beginning of the period when James VI of Scotland arrives in London, becomes James I of England,
Not an easy start to the reign because his arrival in London is delayed by yet another outbreak of plague.
So his royal entry was postponed until 1604, but also a slightly bumpy landing as far as London was concerned, as far as people were concerned.
Yes.
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