Elizabethan Balance: Caution and Opportunism

This week Beau discusses the life and times of one of the greatest Elizabethan men of action, Sir Walter Raleigh. From his attempts to start colonies in North America, his role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada, his adventures in South America, his fall from grace and imprisonment under James I, his final hurrah in the New World, and his eventual disgrace and execution.