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Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: Politics on Trial: Thomas More vs the King
Description: In today’s episode another trial that forms the basis for great drama: the case of Thomas More, tried and executed in 1535, events dramatised by Robert Bolt in A Man for All Seasons and Hilary Mantel in Wolf Hall. How did More try to argue that silence was no evidence of treason? Why was his defence so legalistic? Was he really ‘the Socrates of England’? And who was the true villain in this case: Thomas Cromwell, Richard Rich or the King himself?
Available now on PPF+: Socrates part 2, in which David explores the verdict of history on this c...