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	Podcast:		London Review Bookshop Podcast
	Episode:		Helen Castor & Mary Wellesley: The Eagle & the Hart
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		01:04:49
	Publish Date:		2025-03-26 12:30:00
	Description:		‘If ever a book of history was blessed with contemporary relevance, this one is’, writes Andrew O’Hagan of Helen Castor’s The Eagle and the Hart (Allen Lane). ‘The dumbfounding, delusional, narcissistic King Richard; the white-knuckle ride of Henry IV, dogged all the way by notions of illegitimacy. I feel these men could have been ripped from today’s headlines.’ Castor, whose 2010 book She-Wolves was adapted for television by the BBC, discussed Richard and Henry with Mary Wellesley, author of Hidden Hands: Lives of Manuscripts and their Makers and co-presenter of the medieval strand of the LRB’s Close Readings podcast series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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