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The Makers of the Bayeux Tapestry
30/30Gale Owen-Crocker explores the making of the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Harold Godwinson
29/30Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.
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Edward the Confessor
28/30Stephen Baxter creates a portrait of the remarkable Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor.
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Aethelred the Unready
27/30Simon Keynes discusses the life of the Anglo-Saxon monarch Aethelred.
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Episode 26
26/30Historian Pauline Stafford assesses the life of Queen Emma of Normandy.
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Cnut the Great
25/30Dr Timothy Bolton presents a portrait of Cnut, son of Sven Forkbeard, the king of Denmark.
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Athelstan
24/30A claim for King Athelstan to be reinstated as a more significant historical figure.
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The Smith - Gold and Black
23/30Lesley Webster on the life of the smith and his ambivalent status in Anglo-Saxon society.
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Wynflaed
22/30Michael Wood on Wynflaed, seen as the first woman in British history to have left a will.
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Leoba
21/30Barbara Yorke on Leoba, the 8th-century nun who became a pioneering abbess in Germany.
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Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
20/30Martin Carver discusses Aethelflaed, lady of the Mercians and King Alfred's daughter.
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Alfred the Great
19/30Michael Wood discusses Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and king of the Anglo-Saxons.
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Law-Makers
18/30Geoffrey Robertson assesses the ideas, influence and legacy of Anglo-Saxon lawmakers.
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Wilfred, the Bishop
17/30Clare Stancliffe discusses Wilfred, the bishop who introduced music into the liturgy.
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Alcuin, the Scholar
16/30Mary Garrison discusses the scholar Alcuin, regarded as 'the most learned man anywhere'.
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Offa, King of the Mercians
15/30Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards discusses Offa, who was King of Mercia from 757 to 796 AD
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The Court of King Alfred
14/30Jinty Nelson explains how the court of King Alfred was run and how he rewarded his thegns.
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Caedmon, the Oldest Surviving English Poet
13/30Writer David Almond discusses Caedmon, the earliest English poet whose name is known.
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Bede, the Father of English History
12/30Scholar of the Anglo-Saxons Lilian Groves explores the life and times of St Bede.
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The Beowulf Bard
11/30Nobel Prize-winner the late Seamus Heaney's portrait of the great Anglo-Saxon Beowulf bard
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Eadfrith the Scribe
10/30Richard Gameson explores the everyday working lives and vital contribution of scribes.
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Cuthbert
9/30Historian Tony Morris explores the life of Cuthbert, the popular saint of the Northeast.
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Hild of Whitby
8/30The story of Hild of Whitby, an abbess who held great power in the seventh century.
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Penda
7/30Historian Michael Wood celebrates Penda, the much-maligned last pagan king of England.
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King Edwin
6/30Discussing King Edwin, the ruler of Northumbria famous for his conversion to Christianity.
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King Raedwald
5/30Martin Carver discusses the inhabitant of the Sutton Hoo ship burial.
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Three Alpha Females
4/30Martin Carver recreates the lives of three powerful pagan women.
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St Augustine
3/30Rowan Williams focuses on St Augustine, the first-ever Archbishop of Canterbury.
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The Peasant Farmer
2/30Portrait of the peasant farmers who have shaped the English landscape as we know it today.
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Vortigern
1/30Discussion on Vortigern, the king often blamed for inviting the first Anglo-Saxon invaders
