Latest Banqueting Podcast Episodes
Outliers – Secrets of the Bedchamber
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - May 09, 2024 02:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsCatalina served Katherine of Aragon for years, proudly, passionately, and loyally following her from Spain all the way to the side of King Henry VIII. But Henry’s interest has turned. He is intent on divorce, and his henchmen are digging up the secrets of Katherine’s first marriage to Arthur T...
Outliers – Crack of Thunder
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - April 25, 2024 02:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsLeech is a man who knows about fire, how it burns and how it feels. But when Whitehall Palace, the largest palace in Europe, becomes the greatest kindling pile for a seemingly unquenchable blaze, even he is left dazzled. Everything burns, even the home of kings. Outliers – Stories from the ...
Outliers – Fresh Sweat and Cloves
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - April 11, 2024 02:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsAs lady-in-waiting to an ageing queen and wife to a failed adventurer, Bess Raleigh has learnt to fight her corner against all adversity. Her life is spent in the shadow of the Tower of London with her husband Sir Walter Raleigh. But will she manage to keep her head whilst others around her lo...
Outliers – Mehmet and Peter
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - March 28, 2024 02:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsOutliers – Stories from the edge of history is an historic fiction podcast that explores how big events are viewed and shaped by the people in the shadows. It’s late spring in 1726 at Kensington Palace, and the lavish court of King George I is in residence. Meanwhile, Mehmet, the Turkish val...
Henry VIII's Royal Progresses - New Research at the Palaces
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - March 14, 2024 02:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsThe practice of journeying around the country on royal progress is one that monarchs used to strengthen their rule. But they can reveal a lot more than you’d think about kingship and queenship, even for tried and tested subjects such as Henry VIII and his six Queens. We follow Post-Doctor...
Day in the Life of...A Yeoman Warder
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - February 29, 2024 02:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsThe Yeoman Warders have guarded the Tower of London for 500 years, and is perhaps the oldest of jobs that still exists in our palaces today. In this final episode of a Day in the Life, we meet the Chief Yeoman Warder himself, Rob Fuller, and Curator Charles Farris fills us in on the storied hi...
Day in the life of...A Bricklayer
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - February 15, 2024 02:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsHampton Court Palace was built and maintained by craftspeople, and this is a practice that endures to this day at the palaces. We follow Master Bricklayer Emma Simpson into her workshop where she describes the joy of her work and how it connects her to history. We then hear from Assistant Cura...
Day in the Life of...A Gardener
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - February 01, 2024 02:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsIn this episode we meet Senior Gardener Jane, who works at Hampton Court Palace. Jane takes us behind the scenes into the Nursery as we contemplate the hard work that goes into creating beautiful gardens. To help contextualise the work of an historic gardener, Curator Lee Prosser takes us on a...
Day in the Life of...A Wardrobe Manager
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - January 18, 2024 02:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsFor the next few episodes, we’re going to be following some of the people who work in our palaces today. We’ll be exploring how these jobs have a historic context to them, and how surprisingly, there are similarities in the work they do now, from the work that was done in the past. Today we ...
New Research at the Palaces – Antarctic Exploration and Grace and Favour
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - January 04, 2024 02:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsHampton Court Palace has an unexpected connection to the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, the wedding of famous explorer Captain Scott and sculptor Kathleen Bruce took place in the Chapel Royal. We follow Assistant Curator Minette Butler as she explores a shut-off part of the Palace, high...
The Six Tudor Queens – Katherine Parr with Sarah Gristwood
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - December 28, 2023 02:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsKatherine Parr is the final Tudor Queen in our series. Was she the nursemaid who looked after and survived her husband, or was she much more than that? In this final episode of our Six Queens Series, Tracy Borman and historian Sarah Gristwood acquaint us with the woman behind the myths, an i...
The Six Tudor Queens – Catherine Howard with Gareth Russell
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - December 14, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsCatherine Howard has been judged by generations as promiscuous, a silly girl, a victim. But of course, there is more to her story than these assumptions allow for. In the fifth episode of our Six Tudor Queens series, Tracy Borman is joined by historian and author Gareth Russell, to bring C...
A History of Royal Christmas Celebrations
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - December 07, 2023 02:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsDive into the history of Royal Christmas celebrations in our palaces with this bonus seasonal episode. Chief mischief-maker Curator Charles Farris is joined by fellow Curator Lee Prosser, and Historic Kitchens Manager Richard Fitch, to kick off the season of revelry with some Christmas tomfool...
The Six Tudor Queens – Anne of Cleves with Tracy Borman
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - November 30, 2023 02:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsTracy Borman talks about her favourite of the Six Tudor Queens, Anne of Cleves. Divorced, so the rhyme goes, for being the ‘ugly’ Queen. Anne’s looks were the least interesting thing about her, but her story has been dominated by them for centuries. Tracy is joined by fellow Curator Brett ...
The Six Tudor Queens – Jane Seymour with Nicola Tallis
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - November 16, 2023 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsThis week we’re talking about Queen number three, Jane Seymour. Once again Tracy Borman is joined by a fantastic guest, Dr Nicola Tallis will bring Jane to life for us. Always thought of as the favourite wife, Jane Seymour is best known for giving birth to the male heir that her husband so ...
The Six Tudor Queens – Anne Boleyn with Owen Emmerson and James Peacock
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - November 02, 2023 02:20 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsThe one you’ve been waiting for! Tracy Borman is joined by Dr Owen Emmerson and Palace Host James Peacock, to take on the mammoth task of disrupting the reputation of the second and most famous of the six Tudor Queens, Anne Boleyn. They’ll explore this in the Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace...
The Six Tudor Queens – Katherine of Aragon with Elizabeth Norton
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - October 19, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsTracy Borman opens our new series on the Queens Consort of Henry VIII with renowned historian Dr Elizabeth Norton. To better understand the six Queens, they first explore the context of the turbulent times in which these women lived. As the first Queen of Henry VIII, Katherine of Aragon’s r...
The Six Tudor Queens with Tracy Borman
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - October 12, 2023 02:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsIn this new series Chief Curator Tracy Borman will guide us through the well-known lives of the six Tudor queens who all had one man common. This six-part series will aim to do the Queens justice whilst discussing some of the interpretations that history has offered of them. We’ll talk abou...
The Indian Army at the Palace – Legacy of Empire
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - October 05, 2023 02:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsIn this week’s episode, exhibition lead Zakira Begum and Community Curators Rav Singh and Dr Tej Pal Singh Ralmill explore the impact of the World Wars on the Indian Army, how they moved the Indian Subcontinent towards independence from the British Empire, and ultimately how the legacy of thi...
The Indian Army at the Palace – Context of Empire
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - September 21, 2023 02:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsIn the early 20th century soldiers from the Indian Army camped at Hampton Court Palace on a number of occasions for coronations and peace celebrations. But behind all the pomp and ceremony was a much darker side. In this episode, Exhibition Lead Zakira Begum and Community Curators Rav Singh ...
A Space I Love S2 – The Hidden Tudor Chapel with Dan Jackson
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - September 07, 2023 02:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsThis week we’re back with the final episode from series two of A Space I Love. Today Head of Historic Buildings Dan Jackson takes us into a space that for him, sums up what Hampton Court Palace is all about, the hidden east wall of the Chapel Royal. Tucked away for 400 years, this jigsaw...
A Space I Love S2 – Queen Charlotte's Drawing Room with Polly Putnam
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - August 24, 2023 02:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsThis week marks the penultimate episode in our six-part mini-series on special places in our palaces. We’re following Curator Polly Putnam into Queen Charlotte’s Drawing Room in Kew Palace, the home of the Royal Family during the illnesses of George III. This small and domestic-feeling roo...
A Space I Love S2 – The Banqueting House roof with Lee Prosser
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - August 10, 2023 02:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsIn the fourth part of this series, Curator Lee Prosser takes us into a hidden space at the Banqueting House, once part of the great Whitehall Palace. It may not be the famous Rubens ceiling, but Lee will reveal how the roof space of the Banqueting House is a piece of living history, with a r...
A Space I Love S2 – The Tower of London's Chapel Royal with Alfred Hawkins
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - July 27, 2023 02:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsThis week is the third part of our mini-series on spaces we love. We’ll be joining Assistant Curator Alfred Hawkins who has chosen to take us into the Chapel of St Peter Ad Vincula at the Tower of London. As the burial place of Anne Boleyn, the Chapel Royal holds a special place to many hi...
A Space I Love S2 – The Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection with Matthew Storey
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - July 13, 2023 02:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsThis week we’re continuing our mini-series on treasured spaces with a trip through a place full of historic clothing, the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. We’ll follow Curator Matthew Storey into this hidden store, to find out how we can learn from the stories that are carried in the his...
A Space I Love Series 2 – The King’s House with Alden Gregory
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - June 29, 2023 02:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsWelcome back to series two of A Space I Love. In this six-part mini-series, we’re back exploring a selection of treasured spaces in our palaces with the people who know them best, our curators. In this first episode we’ll follow Alden Gregory behind-the-scenes into the King’s House at the...
A Space I Love SERIES TWO coming soon
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - June 22, 2023 02:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsComing next week on Thursday 29th June. In this six-part mini-series, our curators are back sharing their favourite spaces with you. We’ll be exploring a selection of treasured spaces in our palaces, from behind-the-scenes stores, to rooms of immense importance to British history. Some spac...
Behind-The-Scenes in the Conservation Studio
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - June 15, 2023 02:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsFor today’s episode, we’re at Hampton Court Palace and we’re going behind the scenes into a very special place; the Textile Conservation Studio. We’ll speak to our specialist conservators to hear about the care and craftsmanship that goes into looking after historic dress, as well as the ch...
Curator Tour - Crown to Couture at Kensington Palace
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - June 01, 2023 02:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsIn this episode join Curators Polly Putnam and Claudia Acott-Williams for a mini tour of the Crown to Couture exhibition at Kensington Palace. They'll talk about their favourite pieces on display, as well as the craftsmanship that goes into making high fashion, from the Georgian Court to the Red...
Fashion is Political – the Legacy of Georgian Power Dressing
Historic Royal Palaces Podcast - May 18, 2023 02:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 378 ratingsFrom Beyoncé to Billie Eilish, fashion is undeniably personal and political. But the legacy of harnessing fashion as a tool for power and representation goes back to the 18th century and beyond. In this episode Curators Matthew Story, Polly Putnam and Claudia Acott-Williams celebrate the joy o...
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