John Dudley: Tudor England's Wicked Duke

Dan Snow is joined by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb to discuss John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, the power behind the boy king Edward VI. Dudley was a formidable and ruthless figure who rescued England from war and financial crisis, yet remains remembered as the ‘Wicked Duke’. The episode explores his extraordinary rise, his attempt to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, and his bloody fall, asking whether he was a villain, an opportunist, or Tudor England’s unlikely saviour.