The Truth About Richard III

Introduced as a notorious murderous monster, King Richard III answers back with a heartfelt pop ballad sung around the grounds of a castle. Clutching white roses and holding up handmade placards, he denies the hunched back, the seizing of the crown and the disappearance of his young nephews in the Tower, blaming everything on Tudor spin. When he turns to the men who wrote his story, Thomas More and William Shakespeare sit scribbling at a desk while he crumples their pages. The last Plantagenet closes his plea by insisting he is simply a nice guy, before a passing wasp sends his composure flying.

Over a year after the song aired, a skeleton with severe scoliosis was excavated beneath a Leicester car park, and in February 2013 the University of Leicester announced it was Richard III's, undercutting the song's claim that he never had a hump.