Broadcasting

Podcasts
Historic Royal Palaces, May 30th

Television documentaries

Timewatch, BBC2
The King’s Servant, 26th January 2001

Renaissance Secrets series II, BBC2-OU partnership
Venice: Second-Hand City, 29th October 2001 (John Guy video clip 1 | John Guy video clip 2)
The Italian Patient, 5th November 2001
Conspiring Against the Queen, 12th November 2001
What did Gutenberg invent?, 19th November 2001

Royal Deaths and Diseases, Channel 4
Decadence, 17th January 2003
Tainted Blood, 24th January 2003
Royal Children, 31st January 2003

Meet the Ancestors, BBC2
Wolsey’s Lost Palace of Hampton Court, 2002

Time Team, Channel 4
appearances as Tudor historical expert in 2004, 2005, 2006

Seven Ages of Britain, BBC1
historical consultant on the Tudors, 2008

Educating Margaret, BBC4
A Renaissance Education: the Schooling of Margaret More (television adaptation of A Daughter’s Love: Thomas and Margaret More), 2011

The Most Dangerous Man in Tudor England, BBC2
BBC Productions, first shown , 6th June 2013
The Spy who brought down Mary, Queen of Scots, Channel 5
Quickfire Media, first shown, 29th May 2014
The Last Days of Mary, Queen of Scots, Channel 5
Oxford Film and Television, first shown, 9th April 2015
Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary, BBC 2
Pioneer Productions, first shown, 1st Feb 2016

Radio
Radio contributions include In Our Time (Radio 4), Start the Week (Radio 4), Front Row (Radio 4), Night Waves (Radio 3), What if? (Radio 4), Great Lives (Radio 4), Woman’s Hour (Radio 4), Free Thinking (Radio 3)

Other
John Guy discusses Mary Queen of Scots on ‘In Our Time’ with Melvyn Bragg, David Forsyth and Anna Groundwater. You can find the programme on iPlayer here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088fs7z

John Guy discusses William Cecil on ‘In Our Time’ with Melvyn Bragg, Susan Doran and Diarmaid MacCulloch. You can find the programme on iPlayer here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002zq6

John Guy discusses Thomas Gresham, the power of central banks and the trouble with private debt on ‘Start the Week’ with Andrew Marr, Sir Paul Tucker, Miatta Fahnbulleh and Alice Tapper. You can find the programme on iPlayer here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006126

Listen to John Guy’s 2019 Special Lecture for the 500th anniversary of Thomas Gresham’s birth here:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/thomas-gresham-1519-2019

John Guy discusses Holbein and the Court of Henry VIII on ‘In Our Time’ with Melvyn Bragg, Susan Foister and Maria Hayward. You can find the programme on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06gw3jj

John Guy discusses Thomas More and Utopianism in Politics on ‘Free Thinking’ with Anne McElvoy, Justin Champion, Gisela Stuart MP and Kwasi Kwarteng MP. You can find the programme on iPlayer here:

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