Started this almost by accident when sheer indecision about what to listen to next caused me to pick the one to which lowest down my list of to be read, and what an unexpectedly entertaining listen it turned out to be. Norwich examines the first half of the century through the lives of the four rulers who shaped and influenced it, their friendships, rivalries and bitter enmities. It's so packed with historical incident - sieges, diplomacy, schisms, reformations, dynastic marriages, invasions, assasinations, executions, pagaentry - that it flies along, and the personalities of all involved are outsized and utterly fascinating.