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History Cafe

History Cafe

By: Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...

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  • # 50 No more menage à trois - Ep 5 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French

    # 50 No more menage à trois - Ep 5 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
    Jun 24 2026
    In a dynamite French document from August 1530, still overlooked by historians, the King of France offers to send troops to England to defend Henry VIII against the Spanish. No French government before or since has ever promised to send troops to defend England. Does this explain Henry’s sudden move in August 1530 to go on the offensive against Rome and the clergy in England?

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    29 mins
  • # 46 Missions Impossible - Ep 3 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French

    # 46 Missions Impossible - Ep 3 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
    Jun 10 2026
    1527: The pope is a prisoner of the marauding Spanish in Rome and yet Henry sends his man Knight on a madcap mission to ask Pope Clement VII for permission to marry a young woman he is already sleeping with. It’s the first of a whole series of crazy errands, asking the pope for the impossible. Does Henry have a hidden agenda?

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    32 mins
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