Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Anne Boleyn
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| Anne Boleyn and the Big Bang | 22 Apr 2025 | 00:09:54 | |
Anne Boleyn threatened the feudal system where lords owned people as property. She posed an existential threat to Lord Thomas Cromwell and 27 other lords of England. Lord Cromwell seized control of the Church of England—an institution Anne herself helped establish—he systematically dismantled her reputation and branded her the Great Whore, an apocalyptic title from the Book of Revelation. This calculated character assassination worked for centuries. In 1949 it finally became possible to restore Anne Boleyn’s good name. Fred Hoyle's introduction of the "Big Bang" metaphor in 1949 created public awareness of new cosmology. This podcast explores how the universe's potential contraction—the "Big Crunch"—opens doors to contemplating a universe that began with just one particle. This minimalist beginning suggests a universe where nothing existed outside of the single particle and its source. It is a moment in time just ahead of the hot dense primordial soup of matter found in the classic Big Bang metaphor. The Boleyn humanist theory proposes that far from being a lost particle in this universe made of particles the first particle localized in Jesus of Nazareth. It is an alternative universe and one in which there is no such thing as spirit. | |||
| The Anne Boleyn Collective | 20 Apr 2025 | 00:16:00 | |
Drawing on historical sources like Pliny, Lucian, Tacitus, and Josephus, we trace Anne's religious thinking back to early Christian humanism. When Anne said "Lord Jesus, receive my soul" at her execution, she wasn't speaking of a future resurrection but addressing Jesus "in real time"—a radical departure from medieval Catholic doctrine. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer recognized her religious significance when he declared, "She who has been the Queen of England upon earth will today become a Queen in heaven." Anne Boleyn was a progressive who helped reshape England's religious landscape before being vilified as "the Great Whore" and executed in 1536. Her story continues to resonate across the centuries. | |||
| The Stolen Years of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn | 12 Apr 2025 | 00:14:04 | |
This podcast is about the battle for the soul of England. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn transformed England from a Catholic country to a Protestant one. Their relationship spanned fourteen years. For ten years they were inseparable. Following her execution on May 19, 1536, Anne was ex-communicated by the Church of England. People were no longer free to talk about Anne but not talking about Anne meant not talking about Henry because they had been as one. The historical gaps in Henry VIII's story aren't accidents but calculated omissions designed to control the narrative. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and the narrative fell into the hands of Thomas Cromwell and the English aristocracy. 28 lords and noblemen of England to be precise. It was not just Anne erased from history. With 14 years of Anne Boleyn’s life there was included 14 years of Henry VIII’s life which was deliberately expunged from historical records. | |||
| by William Shakespeare | 09 Apr 2025 | 00:13:26 | |
Every great story has hidden beginnings, and Shakespeare's rise from obscurity to literary immortality is no exception. In 1592, the Lord Chamberlain's Men were at a crossroads—financially stable but creatively paralyzed by fear of Elizabethan England's religious authorities. Enter William Shakespeare, a Catholic from Stratford-upon-Avon seeking fortune in London, initially hired merely as a stagehand among Oxford and Cambridge graduates. Beyond the divine approval from Athena there was a war queen in need of divine help. Queen Elizabeth sought ways to restore her mother Anne Boleyn's erased legacy without directly challenging religious orthodoxy. Shakespeare—simultaneously spear, helmet, shield, and chariot of Athena—became the vessel through which dangerous stories could safely be told. When Shakespeare drank, friends claimed he channeled extraordinary creativity. Whether supernatural inspiration or creative collaboration with the University Wits, the result was revolutionary—art that subtly challenged the status quo while appearing to conform to it. | |||
| Anne Boleyn in the U.S.A. | 04 Apr 2025 | 00:11:48 | |
The popular American conception of Anne as a temptress completely misses the truth revealed by her daughter Elizabeth I. When Elizabeth became Queen, she commissioned a family tree honoring her mother as "the most gracious Princess Lady Anne." This wasn't mere sentiment—when Anne emerged internationally in 1526, it was as Princess Anne Boleyn. My book uses Elizabeth's perspective as a primary source to reconstruct the authentic story of this remarkable woman whose humanist philosophy, had it flourished, could have fundamentally changed America's founding principles and religious character. Anne Boleyn wasn't merely Henry VIII's second wife but history's greatest humanist—a philosopher who rejected spirit and the religions which come with it. Anne is the greatest because she was able to accommodate Jesus of Nazareth in a humanist scheme. Her concept of Jesus was not true to the Bible. Her Jesus was true to history. We do not know how far she got in her revision of the gospels but according to Elizabeth she completed the task before it was all destroyed, and she was erased. America came close to an alternative destiny with Anne Boleyn in a place of honour in her consciousness. | |||
| New Songs | 31 Mar 2025 | 00:19:53 | |
| A Love Story (Part 2) | 30 Mar 2025 | 00:16:50 | |
A giant horse falls on Henry VIII, and England is forever changed—not because he died, but because of what returned in his place. This extraordinary exploration of Tudor history suggests that when the 44-year-old king suffered a catastrophic riding accident on January 24, 1536, his soul departed while his concussed body became a puppet for the manipulative Thomas Cromwell. | |||
| A Love Story (Part 1) | 26 Mar 2025 | 00:12:34 | |
Anne Boleyn's remarkable story transcends the typical Tudor narrative of a queen who lost her head. She was systematically erased from history—her portraits destroyed, her letters burned, her emblems dismantled. Thomas Cromwell labeled her "The Great Whore" and worked tirelessly to remove her from historical memory. He succeeded. Then came Elizabeth to the throne. The fascinating dimensions of Anne and Henry's relationship reveal parallels to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Anne initially harbored intense hatred toward Henry for his callous treatment of her sister Mary Boleyn. Returning from France as the "little darling of Europe's progressive humanists," Anne was determined to deliver "an almighty reprimand" to the king. Henry, aware of her contempt, devised a plan to meet Anne incognito—hoping to present his side of the story before her disgust became insurmountable. Their unexpected love story emerged from this foundation of antagonism, creating one of history's most consequential and complicated romances. Check it out. | |||
| The Great Whore Revisited | 22 Mar 2025 | 00:29:44 | |
I was a guest on the Stacey Chillemi podcast recently. I had a great time and it helped me focus on Anne Boleyn even more sharply. 18 year old Anne was known as the king's whore and the king's concubine from 1526 onwards. She was not known as the Great Whore till after her death in 1536. The Great Whore, well that's another story. | |||
| Humanism | 20 Mar 2025 | 00:15:02 | |
Anne Boleyn was an amazing human being. She was given an education that money could not buy. She was educated to be what she became and that was a thought leader and a conduit for humanism. The Renaissance gave us Michelangelo who painted God in the form of a man. The Renaissance gave us Anne Boleyn who understood what it meant for God to be a man. Anne understood the selfish gene in terms of the selfish nature of men and women. She understood selfish is not a dirty word because it is the way we are made. It is not immoral or a sin to be selfish, it is natural. Anne was a Christian and so was Henry and selfish had to be balanced with religious ambition and social instinct. Anne was selfish for falling in love with a married man. Henry VIII was selfish for wanting a male heir. Neither was more selfish than when it came to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Selfishness and not love was the relationship between Jesus Christ and the Tudor family of Anne, Henry and Elizabeth 1. | |||
| verses Richard Dawkins | 09 Mar 2025 | 00:14:42 | |
What happens when brilliant minds from different centuries arrive at startlingly similar conclusions about religion? Anne Boleyn and Richard Dawkins emerge as unexpected intellectual companions in this thought-provoking exploration of religious criticism across time. Discover how these intellectual rebels, despite centuries between them, followed similar paths of questioning, discovery, and ultimately transformation of religious thought. Their stories remind us that challenging established narratives requires both courage and disciplined thinking—regardless of the era. Dawkins and Boleyn part company when it comes to the historical Jesus Christ. The atheist does not believe Jesus of Nazareth is God Almighty. But the humanist managed to accommodate Jesus the human for God. Anne Boleyn developed humanism as an intellectual alternative to spirituality. She maintained a human-to-human relationship with Jesus of Nazareth. | |||
| Introduction to Anne Boleyn | 04 Mar 2025 | 00:10:43 | |
We will always be asking who was Anne Boleyn? Thomas Cromwell the architect of Anne's downfall created a mess. Anne was found guilty of witchcraft, adultery, incest and treason. Cromwell included in the infamous jury of 26 the father of Anne Boleyn. People were left to doubt Anne's innocence because she was condemned to die by her own father. It makes you think there was some truth to the charges against her. Something incredible went down on 15th May 1536. The outcome was that Anne was rubbed out of history and she lost her name. A few days after her portraits and letters and sermons were destroyed and her emblems were removed from royal palaces. Anne could no longer be mentioned by name and was casually referred as the Great Whore. In May of 1536 Anne Boleyn was a name and a story. A spectacular trial was arranged to help people forget all that she achieved. We remember Anne for scandal. She had a story worth telling but the narrative was changed. Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of Anne Boleyn, a woman whose legacy continues to fascinate and inspire. | |||
| Whatever happened to Anne Boleyn's sins? | 03 Mar 2025 | 00:12:15 | |
Anne Boleyn was found guilty of witchcraft, adultery, incest, and treason. But in her execution speech Anne did not ask for her sins to be forgiven. No surprise there because in the existential universe there is no such thing as sin and for Anne to have known this is evidence of genius. There were educators in France expecting a lot from Anne Boleyn and she delivered. She freed England from the Catholic Church. If there is no such thing as sin, then Jesus Christ did not die for the sins of the world. He did not die for the sins of Vladimir Putin. He is not responsible for the latest Russian delusion, the cult of Putin. Russians murder Ukrainians because they believe in redemption. They have a licence to kill. They are deluded. If you want to know why Jesus Christ died on the cross, then join me in exploring the existential narrative. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review if you enjoyed the episode! | |||
| The Route to Anne Boleyn | 02 Mar 2025 | 00:14:15 | |
Vladimir Putin in 2022 sent me on a journey to find the world's first existentialist. I was interrupted by the BBC in November of 2023 with the broadcasting of "Shakespeare, Rise of a Genius." It was to celebrate 400 years of First Folio, the publication of Shakespeare's plays. I found a theme in the plays which led to Anne Boleyn who was a humanist. In the words of Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism Is a Humanism.” The individual verses the collective is another way of looking at human existence. In this episode, we examine the intertwining legacies of Anne Boleyn and William Shakespeare. Bridging Anne and her biographer I found Elizabeth I, the daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. Ann revived the idea started by Jesus of Nazareth. His idea was that God is a man. Or as Anne herself might have said, God is human. We explore the pervasive influence of the Russian Orthodox Church in modern Russian society and how it parallels historical suppression of truth by Catholics. Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth 1 hated Catholics. We must be humanist like Anne and Elizabeth and show hate to those who institutionalise delusion. | |||