Rex Factor

This is what Ali looks like after recording five podcasts in a day! We’ve now started Series 4, but Ali might need some sleep before the next recording!

Our new episode reviewing Offa of Mercia can also be watched as well as listened to! Available on Spotify or YouTube to watch in full.

We are back in podcast land! Not yet starting series 4 but as a prelude we review King Offa of Mercia, the eighth-century monarch who built a famous Dyke, corresponded with Charlemagne and was almost the first King of England pod.fo/e/398d43

@kevinmartinryan Yes, I think we’ll do a little introductory episode for the series which will go through that.

@rexfactorpod Are you going to announce up front who the nearly monarchs are? Or at least how many there will be (so it will be like an advent calendar)? Or is it open-ended? Anyway, looking forward to King Louis

New series, new notebook (though only one of them will be featured in the series). I’m in full research mode for Series 4 reviewing all the nearly monarchs of England & the UK. Planning a new “first” episode on Offa this month then recording first episodes of series 4 in March!

For more information on @DavidWoodman45 and his other work, check out his website: dwoodman.co.uk

New Episode Alert: We had a fantastic discussion with @DavidWoodman45 on his book The First King of England, looking at the importance of Athelstan in the formation of England as a nation. pod.fo/e/360983

@scottie_clark Wow, an iPod old enough that I can still claim a modicum of modernity for the newer model of iPod that I use for podcasts!

Am I now beyond 'old school' in my method of podcast listening? @rexfactorpod

Podcast Alert: This week we speak to the brilliant @garethrussell1 about his new biography about James I - Queen James, discussing James's reign and the men he loved pod.fo/e/314262

@LennyGoodnight Issue is there are so many we’d be restricting ourselves to obscure corners. French, Spanish, Romans, Popes, presidents, prime ministers and many more all covered! We’re supportive of them but they are their own things rather than spin-offs.

I’m a non-privy councilor, so take this for what it’s worth, but I’d prefer y’all not step on any of the other rexy pods. Seems better not to compete directly with your children, as it were. Then again I suppose that ship has sailed with the upcoming French series. 2/2

@rexfactorpod listening to the latest now. If you do pre-Alfred Anglo-Saxons or Scandinavian monarchs, will you be starting with Odin? IIRC all the Anglo-Saxon dynasties traced their ancestry to him. Would make for a good one-off like the Aragorn or Game of Thrones episodes. 1/

@Chalkboard2209 Thank you!

Check out my membership card from patreon.com/rexfactor! I'm thrilled to support this excellent podcast, which has brought me great enjoyment during my PhD studies. Graham & Ally make a great team. @rexfactorpod

@LennyGoodnight In hindsight, she would definitely have made for a better fit in series 4 than 3. Not sure about parachuting her into the series 4 play-offs, though, feels a bit unfair on the rest of them?

sub-kingdom herself, etc. No need to give her another episode, but just toss her straight into the Season 4 Playoff. (Also, please do Welsh rulers at some point.) 2/2

@rexfactorpod I’m going to pitch an idea you’ll probably shoot down: Æthelflæd should be entered in the Series 4 playoffs. No way you could’ve known when you did her episode, but she fits that series much better, as Alfred’s eldest child, running what is essentially a 1/

It’s the last few hours of voting in the consort play-offs - will Emma of Normandy, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France or Katherine of Aragon be crowned the series champion? Cast your vote here: forms.gle/UYmjZHeMMweGR9…

There's also still one more week for Privy Councillors to vote for what we do in Series 4 of the podcast - Scottish consorts of English nearly monarchs. If you're not a Privy Councillor, you've still got a week to join up and vote! patreon.com/rexfactor

There's also just one week left to vote for the Semi-Final Losers and, most importantly, the Grand Final. Get the links to all three polls on our website rexfactorpodcast.com/consort-vote

We're getting towards the end of the play-offs now. Today is the last day of voting for the Round One Losers: forms.gle/4M55pN3xze3URW…

Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK on loan after 900 years bbc.com/news/articles/…

And if you join the Privy Council, there's still time to vote in the Nearly Rexy Consort final (Matilda of Flanders, Isabella of Angoulême, Prince Philip) and to vote to decide what we do for Series 4 - Scottish consorts or English nearly monarchs patreon.com/rexfactor

Head to our website for links to vote in the Grand Final as well as the Round One and Semi-Final Losers polls - voting for the R1 losers closed on Friday 11, then SF Losers and Grand Final on Friday 18 July rexfactorpodcast.com/consort-vote

Podcast Alert: The last vote we're releasing in the consort play-offs - the Semi-Final losers, ranking the eight losing semi-finalists to give them all a final series finishing position pod.fo/e/2f596f