Major figures and extraordinary lives

Here is a selection of Radio France and France Inter podcasts exploring the medieval world through major historical figures and extraordinary destinies. Dive into a thousand years of history you can listen to!

• Series : "Les monarques anglais et la France, toute une histoire"
  Episode 1: William the Conqueror has more than one trick up his sleeve.
   
• Series : "Le Moyen Âge" 
  Episode: Richard Cœur de Lion 
  “Il était un géant dans la bataille et se trouvait partout. Il était Achille, Alexandre et Roland.” 
  We discover the destiny of Richard the Lionheart — the warrior‑king — thanks to historian Jean Flori, who recounts, beyond the legend, the life of the son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II. 
   
• "Hildegarde de Bingen, génie cosmique" 
  The story unfolds in the Middle Ages: a young girl with extraordinary abilities is born in the Rhine Valley. Her name is Hildegard of Bingen, and she would go on to lead a remarkable life as abbess, visionary, composer of genius, and a woman of power who became a symbol of sisterhood.