Becoming Elizabeth I

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Queen Elizabeth I has been depicted on the big and small screen more times than most of her contemporaries. Now, a critically acclaimed TV series Becoming Elizabeth - streaming on STARZ - traces the turbulent early years of Elizabeth, negotiating all the political intrigues of the court on her journey towards securing the crown.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Becoming Elizabeth’s writer Anya Reiss and its Executive Producer George Ormond about finding fresh drama and bringing to light little-known episodes and characters in the ever-captivating story of Elizabeth I.

For this episode, the Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg. Audio extract from Becoming Elizabeth courtesy of STARZ.

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0:00.0	When it comes to films and television, the tutors are a perennially fascinating subject.
0:14.1	And Lisbon I has been depicted on screen more than most.
0:18.6	Here are just some of the names that have played her, Sarah Bernhardt, Flora Robson, Betty
0:23.5	Davis, Glenda Jackson, Miranda Richardson, Kate Blanchett, Judy Dench, Helen Mirren,
0:29.9	and I'm sure I've missed some.
0:32.1	But as far as I can recall, only once before has someone set out to show Elizabeth as a
0:37.4	young girl, and that was Gene Simmons in 1953 in a film called Young Best.
0:43.9	It is this early part of Elizabeth's life.
0:47.0	The years after Henry VIII died in January 1547 that is the subject of a new series on
0:53.0	stars called Becoming Elizabeth with Alicia Bonn-Rittberg in the title role.
1:00.6	It was a time of intense change, instability and conflict, and the series poses new questions
1:07.4	on the nature of Queenship, familial legacy, the role of women, power and consent.
1:15.4	The series also features Romulagari as the Princess Mary and Tom Cullen as Thomas Seymour,
1:22.2	whom you can hear in this clip.
1:24.6	Katherine, I once too thought wise and good and a friend, but then look how she mocks
1:34.0	off our memory with that man.
1:36.4	I feel sick of what I hear about them both, what I have seen.
1:41.0	You are to leave.
1:43.0	The King does so love his new once religious commentary.
1:56.7	May I escort you back?
1:57.8	I mean no need of an escort.
2:00.0	Are we angry Mary about my marriage?
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