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Author Dana Schwartz explores the stories of some of history’s most fascinating royals: the tyrants and the tragic, the murderers and the murdered, and everyone in between. Because when you’re wearing a crown, mistakes often mean blood.


Noble Blood

Tycho Brahe was the heir to several lines of Danish nobility. Rather than spend his life as a bureaucrat, he devoted himself to astronomy and collected the data that would lead to a new era of discovery. He also had no nose, a pet elk, a dwarf, and a mysterious death. Just your typical scientist stuff.

 
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How Tycho Brahe Saw the Stars

Comedian, writer, and actor David Mitchell joins the podcast to discuss his newest book, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens. The book is an overview of the monarchs from King Arthur to Elizabeth I, but it's also a cultural analysis of how the stories we tell ourselves about kings inform who we are. The book is available now in paperback.
 
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The 'Unruly' British Monarchy (with David Mitchell)

The "fun fact" that Caligula tried to appoint his horse to the senate is a classic example of an emperor gone mad with power. The truth is, his appointment was likely a pointed political joke. But who was the horse at the center of it all?
 
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Noble Steed

In 1981, 11-year-old Matt DeMeritt got a call that would change his life. He wasn’t a child actor, or a performer of any kind. He was just a suburban kid enjoying his summer break. But Matt had something no other kid had — something Steven Spielberg needed to make his most ambitious movie yet. 
 
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Note: This episode contains discussions of suicide. Please take care while listening.
 
Hosted by Dana Schwartz, Zaron Burnett, and Jason English
Written by Jake Rossen
Produced by Josh Fisher
Story Editor is Marisa Brown
Editing and Sound Design by Mary Dooe, Jonathan Washington and Josh Fisher
Mixing and Mastering by Baheed Frazier
Voice Actors are Jess Krainchich and Juliet English
Original Music by Elise McCoy
Research and Fact Checking by Jake Rossen and Austin Thompson
Show Logo by Lucy Quintanilla
Executive Producer is Jason English
 
Special thanks to Simon Brew. Check out the Film Stories podcast!
 
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E.T. and Me

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of King Henry VIII.
 
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Divorced (From the Archive)

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of King Henry VIII.
 
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Beheaded (From the Archive)

Jane Seymour was the third wife of King Henry VIII.
 
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Died (From the Archive)

Anne of Cleves was the fourth wife of King Henry VIII.
 
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Divorced II (From the Archive)

Katherine Howard was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII.
 
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Beheaded II (From the Archive)

Catherine Parr was the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII.
 
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Survived (From the Archive)

Arbella Stuart was a pawn her entire life—a possible successor to Queen Elizabeth I and a valuable marriage prospect to be dangled before foreign princes. But when Arbella finally decided to take her life into her own hands, she ignited a series of events straight out of a Shakesperean tragedy.

 
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The Maybe Queen Arbella

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