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House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne
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Episode 6 - The Return of the King
February 29, 2024 · 37 minMindful of the fate of his eldest son, in 1406 Robert attempts to smuggle his younger son James out of the country by sea. But calamity strikes and young James (who is 12) gets stuck on the Bass Rock for several miserable months before…
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Episode 5 - Band of Brothers
February 22, 2024 · 37 minCorrection: In this episode it was incorrect to say Elgin Cathedral wasn’t repaired after the fire of 1390. It was in fact restored and enlarged over the following centuries. The ruins that remain are of that rebuilt cathedral. While David…
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Episode 4 - Wives and Mistresses
February 15, 2024 · 34 minSusan Morrison and Len Pennie discover that, when retaining the Scottish throne, the bedroom is just as important as the battlefield...
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Episode 3 - The Balliols Strike Back
February 8, 2024 · 31 minTalk about accelerated development. Robert the Bruce's son David is already a married ‘man’ at four (his wife was a positively elderly seven-year-old), then at 5, after his father's death, he becomes a king. He's barely old enough to look…
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Episode 2 - Bruces and Balliols
February 1, 2024 · 38 minFour executions, two life imprisonments and a corpse on trial for murder. Susan Morrison and Len Pennie discover that taking the Scottish throne is a brutal and bloody business.
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Episode 1 - Brutal Enough?
January 25, 2024 · 34 minSince the 13th Century, the banner of the Scottish royal house has been a lion. From then until the Union of the Crowns in 1603, four different dynasties engaged in a seemingly endless struggle to claim the banner and the throne. We start…
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Introducing House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne
January 18, 2024 · 3 minSusan Morrison and Len Pennie explore what it takes to be King in medieval Scotland, where ruthlessness and brutality were qualities at the top of the job description.
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Susan Morrison and Len Pennie explore the bloody struggles for the throne of medieval Scotland where keeping it for you and your heirs meant being as effective in bed as in battle