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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

Author : David Starkey
Performed By : Patricia Hodge
Published By - Harper Collins UK
Duration : 6 hours 31 minutes
Type : Historical
Royalty and Heads of State
British
Pre 1900
Biographical
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The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a male heir.

As Henry VIII's interest shifted from her powerful Hapsburg relations and drifted towards France, so began his obsession with the pretty Lutheran Anne Boleyn.

Jane Seymour's submissiveness was in contrast to Anne's vampish style – and Henry married her on the day of Anne's execution. Jane died soon after giving birth to the longed-for son.

There followed a farcical 'beauty contest' which ended in the short marriage of the now grossly overweight Henry to 'the mare of Flanders', Anne of Cleves.

The final part of Six Wives contrasts the two Catherines – Catherine Howard, the flirty child whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing King, and Catherine Parr, the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking.

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Gods of Newport, The

Gods of Newport, The

Author : John Jakes
Performed By : Edward Herrmann
Published By - Simon & Schuster
Duration : 6 hours
Type : Historical
American
Pre 1900
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Author : Mary Rowlandson
Performed By : Carrington MacDuffie
Published By - In Audio
Duration : 2 hours 20 minutes
Type : American
Pre 1900
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Author : Not Known
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Published By - Appleseed Audio
Duration : 1 hour
Type : American
Pre 1900
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Author : Simon Winchester
Performed By : Simon Winchester
Published By - Harper Collins US
Duration : 7 hours 30 minutes
Type : Pre 1900
Arts & Drama
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Author : Michael Beschloss
Performed By : Michael Beschloss
Published By - Simon & Schuster
Duration : 6 hours
Type : American
Politics
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Pre 1900
20th Century
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