Robin Hood, Hugh Jackman and The Uprising: Why the Outlaw Keeps Coming Back | Ep 530

Robin Hood has come back three times in less than a year: the MGM+ series Robin Hood, Hugh Jackman in The Death of Robin Hood, and Andrew Garfield in The Uprising. The last big Robin Hood film was in 2018 and it flopped, so why are there so many new Robin Hood movies now? This episode follows the legend across 650 years, from the first mention of his name to the cinema in 2026, and ends on a question about you.In this episode:Robin Hood's first appearance in English writing, in Piers Plowman around 1377, four years before the Peasants' RevoltThe yeoman the people loved, the preacher who found his church locked on Robin Hood's day, and the Scottish law that banned him in 1555How a rebel you can't ban gets absorbed: Pope Gregory's letter of 601, the Earl of Huntingdon, and the outlaw who kneels to the kingWhy the old stories wake up when people feel taxed, watched and managedVicarious agency: feeling powerful in the dark for two hours, then walking out to the car park with nothing changedThe almost three million people who signed against a British digital ID, with no man in a green hood going firstIn the oldest ballad, Robin Hood kneels to the king, serves him for a year, and walks back into the forest.

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