Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Eadfrith the Scribe

Richard Gameson explores the everyday working lives and vital contribution of scribes.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

The Beowulf Bard

Nobel Prize-winner the late Seamus Heaney's portrait of the great Anglo-Saxon Beowulf bard

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Bede, the Father of English History

Scholar of the Anglo-Saxons Lilian Groves explores the life and times of St Bede.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Caedmon, the Oldest Surviving English Poet

Writer David Almond discusses Caedmon, the earliest English poet whose name is known.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

The Court of King Alfred

Jinty Nelson explains how the court of King Alfred was run and how he rewarded his thegns.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Offa, King of the Mercians

Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards discusses Offa, who was King of Mercia from 757 to 796 AD

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Alcuin, the Scholar

Mary Garrison discusses the scholar Alcuin, regarded as 'the most learned man anywhere'.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Wilfred, the Bishop

Clare Stancliffe discusses Wilfred, the bishop who introduced music into the liturgy.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Law-Makers

Geoffrey Robertson assesses the ideas, influence and legacy of Anglo-Saxon lawmakers.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Alfred the Great

Michael Wood discusses Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and king of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians

Martin Carver discusses Aethelflaed, lady of the Mercians and King Alfred's daughter.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Leoba

Barbara Yorke on Leoba, the 8th-century nun who became a pioneering abbess in Germany.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Wynflaed

Michael Wood on Wynflaed, seen as the first woman in British history to have left a will.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

The Smith - Gold and Black

Lesley Webster on the life of the smith and his ambivalent status in Anglo-Saxon society.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Athelstan

A claim for King Athelstan to be reinstated as a more significant historical figure.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Cnut the Great

Dr Timothy Bolton presents a portrait of Cnut, son of Sven Forkbeard, the king of Denmark.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Episode 26

Historian Pauline Stafford assesses the life of Queen Emma of Normandy.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Aethelred the Unready

Simon Keynes discusses the life of the Anglo-Saxon monarch Aethelred.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Edward the Confessor

Stephen Baxter creates a portrait of the remarkable Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Harold Godwinson

Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.

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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

The Makers of the Bayeux Tapestry

Gale Owen-Crocker explores the making of the Bayeux Tapestry.

• 15 mins

Unknown Cities

Hobart

Nicholas Shakespeare on Hobart's convict and whaling past, and the story of a monkey.

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Unknown Cities

Kunming

Romesh Gunesekera on Kunming, considered to be unlike any other modern Chinese city.

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Unknown Cities

Makhachkala

Vanora Bennett on Makhachkala in Russia, which she describes as 'beyond the mountains'.

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Unknown Cities

Asmara

Michela Wrong on the Italianate buildings and futurist constructions in Asmara, Eritrea.

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Unknown Cities

Holguin

Travel editor Simon Calder recalls the small-scale delights of Holguin in Cuba.

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Wagner's Philosophers

Wagner and German Idealism

Roger Scruton explores the philosophical background that influenced the young Wagner.

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Wagner's Philosophers

Wagner and the Philosophy of Revolution

AC Grayling focuses on the crucial years before and after the Dresden uprising of 1849.

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Wagner's Philosophers

Wagner and Schopenhauer

Christopher Janaway explores Wagner's encounter with the philosophy of Schopenhauer.

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Wagner's Philosophers

Wagner and Nietzsche

Michael Tanner explores the relationship between Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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