Inside the Tower of London
Season released 20th Aug, 2019Rated PG16 episodes
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Inside the Tower of London Season 2 episodes
S02 E01
Episode 1
45 mins · Tue, 20 Aug 2019
Raven chicks are born in the tower for the first time in 30 years - but only one of the newborn birds can stay, and ravenmaster Chris faces the tough decision of choosing one to keep and finding suitable homes for all the others. The tower director prepares to retire after 15 years, and takes a moment to enjoy his final gun salute, while AJ Clarke, only the second woman to join the Yeoman warders, embarks on a fitness regime that soon leaves her in need of a new uniform. Plus, a look at the story of the time the future Queen Elizabeth I was imprisoned in the tower for plotting to overthrow her sister, Queen Mary.
S02 E01
Inside the Tower of London
43 mins · Tue, 20 Aug 2019
Ravenmaster Chris Skaife has hand-reared George, the first raven hatched at the Tower for more than 30 years. After a month living with Chris, it's time for young George to join the rest of the ravens.
S02 E02
Episode 2
45 mins · Tue, 27 Aug 2019
The chief yeoman warder oversees the tower's celebration of the end of the First World War, and special preparations are made for the tower director's retirement party, involving a military band and a unique farewell as he leaves the tower for the last time. Newly hatched raven George is introduced to the rest of the birds, not all of whom take kindly to newcomers, and historian Tracy Borman unearths the story of Roger Casement, who was executed for treason for supporting Irish independence during the First World War.
S02 E02
Inside the Tower of London
43 mins · Tue, 27 Aug 2019
The Chief Yeoman Warder pays tribute in honour of the armed forces with a celebration of the end of WWI.
S02 E03
Episode 3
45 mins · Tue, 3 Sep 2019
The new tower director starts work on the same day that Donald Trump visits London, while curator Eleri Lynn goes in search of a recently rediscovered royal treasure - the last surviving dress made for Elizabeth I, which has turned up in a small village church in Herefordshire. Plus, a look at the golden armour of Charles I and the ultimate fate of Henry VIII's imperial crown.
S02 E03
Inside the Tower of London
43 mins · Tue, 3 Sep 2019
It is the first day at work for the new Tower director, Brigadier Andrew Jackson. As Donald Trump lands on British soil, it also happens to be the day of the longest gun salute in living memory, and Andrew's first public appearance.
S02 E04
Episode 4
45 mins · Tue, 17 Sep 2019
The stories behind some of the most dramatic escape attempts from the tower, including Henry Howard, who tried to avoid execution by making his way through the sewage system. In the present day, curator Sally Dixon-Smith deciphers some graffiti by a Tudor mystic who mysteriously disappeared, while Yeoman warder Chris Clawson reveals why the tower is still a spooky place to work in after dark.
S02 E04
Prisoners At The Tower
43 mins · Tue, 17 Sep 2019
Unusual escape attempts by prisoners in history include the inmate who, to avoid Henry VIII's axe, flushed himself down the toilet. In such a heavily fortified castle, the sewage system was one of the few chinks in its armour.
S02 E05
Episode 5
45 mins · Tue, 1 Oct 2019
At the heart of this episode is one of the Tower of London's greatest tragedies - the story of teenage Queen Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at the Tower during the reign of Mary I. Join Historic Royal Palaces curators as they investigate Jane's imprisonment at the Tower, and explore ancient graffiti carved into the walls by her fellow prisoners a reminder of the once-powerful lives that were destroyed here.
S02 E05
Inside the Tower of London
43 mins · Tue, 1 Oct 2019
Chief curator Tracy Borman explores the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey. The teenage queen's reign lasted only nine days before political favour switched to Mary Tudor, leaving the young Jane imprisoned in the Tower for high treason.
S02 E06
Episode 6
45 mins · Tue, 8 Oct 2019
In episode six, Tracy Borman goes on the hunt for the lost royal palace of Henry VIII. Tracy investigates the changes that Henry made at the Tower for Anne Boleyn, his second Queen. To discover what this lost palace would have been like, Tracy visits Henry's kitchens at Hampton Court Palace to find one of the last tantalising surviving fragments of Henry's great passion for Anne.
S02 E06
Inside the Tower of London
43 mins · Tue, 8 Oct 2019
Tracy Borman goes in search of the lost palace of Henry VIII, a sumptuous group of buildings once part of the Tower. The king spent a fortune on the palace before his marriage to Anne Boleyn, only to destroy all memory of her after her execution.
S02 E07
Episode 7
45 mins · Tue, 15 Oct 2019
In episode seven we follow the Tower's Deputy Governor Deborah Whittingham as she leads the preparations for the Constable's Dues. Meanwhile, Tracy Borman investigates the Duke of Wellington and discovers how he reinvented the Tower during his time as Constable. Wellington reformed the Yeoman Body and strengthened the Tower's military stronghold with the Waterloo Block.
S02 E07
Inside the Tower of London
43 mins · Tue, 15 Oct 2019
The Royal Navy marches on the Tower to hand over a barrel of rum for the biggest ceremony in the Tower's year, the Constable's Dues; chief curator Tracy Borman investigates the Duke of Wellington, once constable of the Tower.
S02 E08
Episode 8
45 mins · Tue, 22 Oct 2019
In this episode we follow the remarkable discovery of the first complete skeletons discovered by archaeologists at the Tower of London. Two skeletons, buried for centuries as visitors walked innocently over their graves. But who are they, and why were they buried right by the entrance to the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula?
S02 E08
Inside the Tower of London
43 mins · Tue, 22 Oct 2019
Building works right outside Henry VIII's chapel lead to a remarkable discovery: the first complete skeletons ever discovered by archaeologists at the Tower, buried for centuries while visitors walked innocently over their graves.