In 1429, France was on the verge of total collapse. Henry V's English armies held Paris and Normandy, while the disinherited Dauphin Charles hid along the Loire, broke and terrified. Then a seventeen-year-old peasant girl named Joan of Arc showed up at his court claiming that heavenly voices had ordered her to save the kingdom. From the desperate fighting outside the walls of Orleans to the grand coronation at Reims and the rigged courtroom in Rouen, this is the true story of how an illiterate teenager turned the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:14 Chapter 1: The Voices in the Garden
04:29 Chapter 2: The Dauphin's Desperation
08:09 Chapter 3: The Miracle at Orleans
10:27 Chapter 4: The March to Reims
14:07 Chapter 5: The Net Closes at Compiegne
17:18 Chapter 6: The Trial of the Century
20:35 Chapter 7: The Fire and the Legend
23:43 What happened next
Featuring: Joan of Arc, Charles VII of France, Jean de Dunois, Pierre Cauchon, Robert de Baudricourt, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford
Dialogue dramatised from history; voices are AI-generated.
Maps: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), Natural Earth.
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