The Essay Episodes Available now
Alice Oswald on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn—An Ode to John Keats
1/5 Alice Oswald explores Keats's great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Harold Godwinson
Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.
Edward the Confessor
Stephen Baxter creates a portrait of Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor.
Aethelred the Unready
Simon Keynes discusses the life of the Anglo-Saxon monarch Aethelred.
The Smith - Gold and Black
Leslie Webster on the life of the smith and his ambivalent status in Anglo-Saxon society.
Alfred the Great
Michael Wood discusses Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and king of the Anglo-Saxons.
Bede, the Father of English History
Scholar of the Anglo Saxons Lilian Groves explores the life and times of St Bede.
The Beowulf Bard
The late Seamus Heaney's exploration of the great bard of the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf.
Eadfrith the Scribe
Richard Gameson explores the literary, historical and artistic legacy of scribes..
Cuthbert
Historian Tony Morris explores the life of Cuthbert, the popular saint of the Northeast/
