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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Iain Chambers

David Starkey on Henry VIII: Famous for 500 years

This is the fifth in a series of podcasts from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

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In this podcast, David Starkey asks why Henry continues to fascinate us in the 21st century, and how did a boy with such a conventional upbringing become such an unconventional king?

David Starkey is the Bye Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and winner of the WH Smith Prize and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History presented by Britain's Historical Association. He is best known for writing and presenting the groundbreaking and hugely popular TV series Elizabeth, and The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

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