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Anglo-Saxon Portraits The Makers of the Bayeux Tapestry
30/30 Gale Owen-Crocker explores the making of the Bayeux Tapestry.
First broadcast: 19 Apr 2013
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits Harold Godwinson
29/30 Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.
First broadcast: 18 Apr 2013
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits Edward the Confessor
28/30 Stephen Baxter creates a portrait of the remarkable Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor.
First broadcast: 17 Apr 2013
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits Aethelred the Unready
27/30 Simon Keynes discusses the life of the Anglo-Saxon monarch Aethelred.
First broadcast: 16 Apr 2013
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits Episode 26
26/30 Historian Pauline Stafford assesses the life of Queen Emma of Normandy.
First broadcast: 15 Apr 2013
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits Cnut the Great
25/30 Dr Timothy Bolton presents a portrait of Cnut, son of Sven Forkbeard, the king of Denmark.
First broadcast: 12 Apr 2013
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits Athelstan
24/30 A claim for King Athelstan to be reinstated as a more significant historical figure.
First broadcast: 11 Apr 2013
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits The Smith - Gold and Black
23/30 Lesley Webster on the life of the smith and his ambivalent status in Anglo-Saxon society.
First broadcast: 10 Apr 2013
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits Wynflaed
22/30 Michael Wood on Wynflaed, seen as the first woman in British history to have left a will.
First broadcast: 09 Apr 2013
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits Leoba
21/30 Barbara Yorke on Leoba, the 8th-century nun who became a pioneering abbess in Germany.
First broadcast: 08 Apr 2013
