BBC celebrates raising of 'Mary Rose' from seabed 25 years ago [audio last 20min]

David Musgrove, editor of BBC History Magazine, presents an audio tour of The Mary Rose Museum (Portsmouth, England) on the 25th anniversary of the raising of Henry VIII's sunken flagship. John Lippiett, Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust, describes artifacts in the museum collection, such as equipment used by the ship's barber-surgeon, utensils from the ship's galley, wollen and leather clothing and accessories, over 150 longbows and thousands of arrows, and a shawm, a predecessor of the oboe. Then, cruising near the Isle of Wight, historian David Childs, author of The Warship"Mary Rose": The Life and Times of King Henry's VIII's Flagship (Chatham Publishing, 2007), tells Musgrove about the Battle of the Solent, during which the Mary Rose sank on July 19th 1545 in an engagement with the fleet of Francis I of France.