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Podcast: Stuff You Should Know
Episode: Richard III: Good Guy or Evil Putz? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Published on April 23, 2025
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Richard III
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uh when a a really well-balanced biography came out in the 1950s from Paul Murray Kindle uh called Richard III uh a woman named Philippa Langley read it and got very interested uh she's a historian and a screenwriter obviously a Ricardian and she was like I want to figure out what happened to this body that's still the mystery of what happened to Richard III
The host mentions a biography of Richard III by Paul Murray Kendall that inspired Philippa Langley's search for the king's burial site.
The Daughter of Time
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Uh it was a very popular detective novel called A Daughter of Time in which they reimagine the disappearance of the two princes as a modern murder mystery where Scotland Yard gets involved and Scott Lanyard says Henry VIIIth was the guy who murdered these two boys. It wasn't Richard III. was a very big book uh bestseller in fact and it kind of helped shape the narrative starting or reshape the narrative I guess starting in the 1950s by saying stick it Shakespeare.
The host mentions a popular detective novel from the 1950s that presented an alternative theory about the disappearance of the two princes, challenging the traditional view of Richard III.