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King John: life of the week

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Episode notes

King John has a terrible reputation. He's best known as the monarch who broke the terms of Magna Carta, lost Normandy to the French and committed numerous acts of unspeakable cruelty. Here, in conversation with Spencer Mizen, Nicholas Vincent considers if John really was as bad as all that - or if, indeed, he was even worse.

Hear Nicholas Vincent discuss the Second Barons' War here: https://link.chtbl.com/77CrHf0Q.

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