Clare Hunter & Denise Mina (13:30)

Both Clare Hunter and Denise Mina brilliantly portray the sexual dynamics and politics of power – between men and women, monarch and subjects, master and servants – that daily confronted Mary Queen of Scots.

One of the most horrific episodes was the murder of David Rizzio, her friend and secretary, an act that her husband Lord Darnley wanted her to witness.

However, in an age when women's voices were suppressed and silenced, Mary used textiles to express power and to emphasise her female agency, to advance her political agenda, affirm her royal lineage and tell her own story, for example in the subversive messages she embroidered in captivity for her supporters.

Celebrated crime writer Denise Mina and acclaimed cultural biographer Clare Hunter combine to tell the story of a queen in her own voice.

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