{"podcast":{"title":"Willy Willy Harry Stee...","slug":"willy-willy-harry-stee-6300749","podcast_index_feed_id":6300749,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/643708c2cf22560011db18ed","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/willy-willy-harry-stee","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/643708c2cf22560011db18ed/1681383189743-42216b9e12d17c527f5a081659830f2b.jpeg","author":"Charlie Higson","episode_count":186,"summary":"Charlie Higson's History of the Monarchy. In each new weekly episode, Charlie and his friendly experts....(ie REAL historians)...learn all about one of our Kings or Queens and ask searching questions like: Were they any good? What did they actually do? Why did so many die from an exploding stomach? It's the story of families at war....literally! New episodes every Friday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/willy-willy-harry-stee-6300749"},"episode":{"title":"Book Club - Eleanor","slug":"book-club-eleanor","published_at":"2025-12-23T09:51:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/willy-willy-harry-stee-6300749/book-club-eleanor","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/willy-willy-harry-stee-6300749","url":"https://shows.acast.com/willy-willy-harry-stee","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/643708c2cf22560011db18ed/e/694973d5f756711739d29049/media.mp3","summary":"In this episode Alice Loxton joins Charlie Higson to talk about her new book, ‘Eleanor’. In 1290, England mourned the death of a queen, Eleanor of Castile, beloved wife of King Edward I, the warrior king. Her body was carried on a 200-mile journey from Lincoln to London, a solemn procession that would become immortalized in stone. To mark the places where it laid, a heartbroken Edward commissioned twelve magnificent Eleanor Crosses. More than seven centuries later, Alice Loxton set herself an epic challenge: following in history’s footsteps by walking the entire 200-mile funeral route on the corresponding dates and in this edition of Willy Willy Harry Stee , Charlie Higson chats with Alice about the journey and the writing of the book itself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"In this episode Alice Loxton joins Charlie Higson to talk about her new book, ‘Eleanor’. In 1290, England mourned the death of a queen, Eleanor of Castile…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2954,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/willy-willy-harry-stee-6300749/episodes/book-club-eleanor/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/willy-willy-harry-stee-6300749/book-club-eleanor.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}