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Michael Wood on Beowulf

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Michael Wood on Beowulf

Michael Wood on Beowulf

Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawing on other Anglo-Saxon classics, he traces the birth of English poetry back to the Dark Ages.

Travelling across the British Isles from East Anglia to Scotland and with the help of Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, actor Julian Glover, local historians and enthusiasts, he brings the story and language of this iconic poem to life. (R)
Broadcast on:
BBC Four, 11:30pm Thursday 24th December 2009
First broadcast:
Thursday 28th May 2009
Duration:
60 minutes
Available until:
12:29am Friday 1st January 2010
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