Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Last Edited: 17-Oct-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.
Date Title Cast Parameters
BBC R3
15-Oct-2012 to
26-Oct-2012
  1. Vortigern
  2. The Peasant Farmer
  3. St Augustine
  4. Three Alpha Females
  5. King Raedwald
  6. King Edwin
  7. Penda
  8. Hild of Whitby
  9. Cuthbert
  10. Eadfrith the Scribe
  1. Barry Cunliffe
  2. Helena Hamerow
  3. Rowan Williams
  4. Martin Carver
  5. Martin Carver
  6. Richard Gameson
  7. Michael Wood
  8. Barbara Yorke
  9. Tony Morris
  10. Richard Gameson
Producers: Beaty Rubens, Sarah Taylor and Mohini Patel
 10 files
2:26:47, 134 MB, S
BBC R3
21-Jan-2013 to
01-Feb-2013
  1. The Beowulf Bard
  2. Bede, the Father of English History
  3. Caedmon, the Oldest Surviving English Poet
  4. The Court of King Alfred
  5. Offa, King of the Mercians
  6. Alcuin, the Scholar
  7. Wilfred, the Bishop
  8. Law-Makers
  9. Alfred the Great
  10. Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
  1. Seamus Heaney
  2. Lilian Groves
  3. David Almond
  4. Jinty Nelson
  5. Thomas Charles-Edwards
  6. Mary Garrison
  7. Clare Stancliffe
  8. Geoffrey Robertson
  9. Michael Wood
  10. Martin Carver
Producers: Beaty Rubens, Sarah Taylor and Mohini Patel 		10 files
2:27:06, 134 MB, S
BBC R3
08-Apr-2013 to
19-Apr-2013
  1. Leoba
  2. Wynflaed
  3. The Smith - Gold and Black
  4. Athelstan
  5. Cnut the Great
  6. Queen Emma
  7. Aethelred the Unready
  8. Edward the Confessor
  9. Harold Godwinson
  10. The Makers of the Bayeux Tapestry
  1. Barbara Yorke
  2. Michael Wood
  3. Lesley Webster
  4. Sarah Foot
  5. Timothy Bolton
  6. Pauline Stafford
  7. Simon Keynes
  8. Stephen Baxter
  9. Clive Anderson
  10. Gale Owen-Crocker
Producers: Beaty Rubens, Sarah Taylor and Mohini Patel
 10 files
2:23:51, 138 MB, S