
Anne Boleyn
They called Anne Boleyn the Great Whore. It is a Bible thing. Great Whore is a title from the Book of Revelation, and it is "end of the world" stuff.
An apocalyptic title is overdoing it a bit. They exaggerated the threat Anne posed. Or has history grossly underestimated Anne Boleyn?
Was Anne an existential threat to the Catholic religion and what is known as Abrahamic faith?
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I must thank historians Lucy Worsley, Suzannah Lipscombe and Tracy Borman
for introducing Anne Boleyn to me. I must thank William Shakespeare for humanism. I must thank Elizabeth I for Shakespeare.
Episodes
14 episodes
Anne Boleyn and the Big Bang
Anne Boleyn threatened the feudal system where lords owned people as property. She posed an existential threat to Lord Thomas Cromwell and 27 other lords of England. Lord Cromwell seized control of the Church of England—an institution Anne hers...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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9:54

The Anne Boleyn Collective
Drawing on historical sources like Pliny, Lucian, Tacitus, and Josephus, we trace Anne's religious thinking back to early Christian humanism. When Anne said "Lord Jesus, receive my soul" at her execution, she wasn't speaking of a future resurre...
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Episode 14
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16:00

The Stolen Years of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn
This podcast is about the battle for the soul of England. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn transformed England from a Catholic country to a Protestant one. Their relationship spanned fourteen years. For ten years they were inseparable. Fo...
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Episode 13
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14:04

by William Shakespeare
Every great story has hidden beginnings, and Shakespeare's rise from obscurity to literary immortality is no exception. In 1592, the Lord Chamberlain's Men were at a crossroads—financially stable but creatively paralyzed by fear of Elizabethan ...
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Episode 12
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13:26

Anne Boleyn in the U.S.A.
The popular American conception of Anne as a temptress completely misses the truth revealed by her daughter Elizabeth I. When Elizabeth became Queen, she commissioned a family tree honoring her mother as "the most gracious Princess Lady Anne." ...
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Episode 11
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11:48

New Songs
1) Covergirl2) The Dance3) Divided We Fall4) She Punk5) Superman
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Episode 10
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19:53

A Love Story (Part 2)
A giant horse falls on Henry VIII, and England is forever changed—not because he died, but because of what returned in his place. This extraordinary exploration of Tudor history suggests that when the 44-year-old king suffered a catastrophic ri...
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Episode 9
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16:50

A Love Story (Part 1)
Anne Boleyn's remarkable story transcends the typical Tudor narrative of a queen who lost her head. She was systematically erased from history—her portraits destroyed, her letters burned, her emblems dismantled. Thomas Cromwell labeled her "The...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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12:34

The Great Whore Revisited
I was a guest on the Stacey Chillemi podcast recently. I had a great time and it helped me focus on Anne Boleyn even more sharply. 18 year old Anne was known as the king's whore and the king's concubine from 1526 onwards. She was no...
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Episode 7
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29:44

Humanism
Anne Boleyn was an amazing human being. She was given an education that money could not buy. She was educated to be what she became and that was a thought leader and a conduit for humanism. The Renaissance gave us Michelangelo who painted God i...
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Episode 6
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15:02

verses Richard Dawkins
What happens when brilliant minds from different centuries arrive at startlingly similar conclusions about religion? Anne Boleyn and Richard Dawkins emerge as unexpected intellectual companions in this thought-provoking exploration of religious...
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Episode 5
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14:42

Introduction to Anne Boleyn
We will always be asking who was Anne Boleyn? Thomas Cromwell the architect of Anne's downfall created a mess. Anne was found guilty of witchcraft, adultery, incest and treason. Cromwell included in the infamous jury of 26 the father of Anne Bo...
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Episode 1
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10:43

Whatever happened to Anne Boleyn's sins?
Anne Boleyn was found guilty of witchcraft, adultery, incest, and treason. But in her execution speech Anne did not ask for her sins to be forgiven. No surprise there because in the existential universe there is no such thing as sin and for Ann...
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Episode 3
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12:15

The Route to Anne Boleyn
Vladimir Putin in 2022 sent me on a journey to find the world's first existentialist. I was interrupted by the BBC in November of 2023 with the broadcasting of "Shakespeare, Rise of a Genius." It was to celebrate 400 years of First Folio, the p...
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Episode 2
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14:15
