Anglo-Saxon Portraits
- Author Various
- Narrator Barbara Yorke, David Almond, Full Cast, Michael Wood, Rowan Williams, Seamus Heaney
- Publisher BBC Audio
- Publish Date 26 November 2020
- Run Time 7 hours and 7 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: historical, political and military, European history, European history: medieval period, middle ages.
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The half millennium between the creation of the English nation in around 550 and the Norman Conquest in 1066 was a formative one. This groundbreaking series rediscovers the Anglo-Saxons through vivid portraits of thirty incredible men and women, as told by their contemporary admirers.
Nobel prize-winner Seamus Heaney discusses the Beowulf bard; former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams focuses on St Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury; Michael Wood celebrates Penda, the much-maligned last pagan king of England; Barbara Yorke tells the story of Hild of Whitby, the powerful abbess and largely forgotten pre-feminism model; and writer David Almond investigates the oldest surviving English poet, Caedmon.
From royalty to peasants, the women behind the Bayeux Tapestry to rebellious nuns, Anglo-Saxon Portraits unravels the mysteries of a too often forgotten period in British history.
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