Helen Carr talks to Oliver Bullough

Historian and Intelligence Squared podcaster Helen Carr tells the story of the century beginning with the death of Edward I in 1307 and ending with the deposition of Richard II in 1399. Her thrilling account in Sceptred Isle is Britain seen through the lives of the last Plantagenets. She uncovers lesser-known voices and untold stories along the way, shedding new light on this pivotal period of English history.

Through the epic drama of regicide, war, the prolonged spectre of the Black Death, religious antagonism, revolt and the end of a royal dynasty, we encounter the human stories behind a fractured monarchy, the birth of the struggle between Europeanism and nationalism, social rebellion and a global pandemic.