To many she's known as Lady Jane Grey, but history should remember her as Queen Jane I.
She was only queen for 9 days in 1553, but this made her the first ever queen of England when she was just 16.
What happened in her short life that made her suddenly the most powerful woman in England? How did 'Bloody Mary' Tudor react? And how did it all go so wrong?
Joining Kate is the wonderful historian Kate Williams, author of Regina: A New History of Women and Power.
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Joining Kate to get behind the bacchanalia is fan-favourite Emma Southon, whose new book is 'Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire'.
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Were the working classes locked below deck and doomed to drown? Could the Titanic have avoided the iceberg? And most importantly (to us, at least), what sex and scandals took place on board?
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