David Starkey's Magna Carta

00:00:06 Relations between a state

00:03:22 "for the body wished to rule the head

00:05:48 "hell itself was defiled by the foulness of John."

00:08:50 the self-styled marshal of the army of god, the barons decided

00:11:24 but several, as the two sides negotiated terms.

00:14:00 solemn on both sides between the king and the barons, that the king

00:17:02 nowadays, very, very few people can read readily.

00:19:19 And no king, least of all John, could possibly agree to that.

00:21:38 his enemies alleged from a surfeit of peaches.

00:24:17 contained no great general statement of principle.

00:26:40 of a legal system whose first home was Westminster hall here.

00:29:14 it also has a powerful political message.

00:31:40 to pay for Charles' military adventures.

00:34:02 In 1629, Charles did away with parliament and the law

00:36:51 and his father ascending to heaven, Charles stepped from a window

00:39:27 Nothing would ever quite be the same again.

00:42:34 In 1765, the government of king George III imposed

00:45:19 very seriously.

00:47:38 The four panels on the left-hand door

00:50:03 has been thrown over all our constitutional liberties.

00:51:55 I hope that the lawyers' efforts and communications

00:54:03 Directly on Magna Carta...

00:56:08 to protect the freedom of the church.

00:58:19 It would be nice to think so.