In this episode, we speak to Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch on everything from the importance of church history to how he chooses the subjects for his books, his thoughts on Tudor mania, and even how he really feels about Thomas Cromwell.

Dairmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. He is a prize-winning author, with such book as History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (2010) , which won the Cundill Prize; Silence: A Christian History (2013); All Things New: Writings on the Reformation (2016); and Thomas Cromwell: A Life (2018). He was knighted in the UK New Year’s Honours List of 2012 and was awarded the Historical Association's Medlicott Medal in 2023.