Andy Orchard
Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureAnglican saintsPoems adapted into filmsScholastic philosophersMedieval Latin-language poetsMedieval English theologiansChristian hagiographers9th-century philosophersGrammarians of LatinAnglo-Saxon poets, Anglo-Saxon writers, 8th-century English writers, 8th-century Christian theologians, 8th-century writers in LatinHistoryInfluences on J. R. R. Tolkien
Alcuin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cleric, educator and poet from York who put learning for its own sake at the heart of the Carolingian Renaissance
30 January 2020
Also featuring: Joanna Story, Mary Garrison
HistoryAnglican saintsScholastic philosophersMedieval Latin-language poetsMedieval English theologiansChristian hagiographers9th-century philosophersGrammarians of LatinAnglo-Saxon poets, Anglo-Saxon writers, 8th-century English writers, 8th-century Christian theologians, 8th-century writers in LatinBeowulf
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic poem Beowulf, one of the masterpieces of Anglo-Saxon literature.
5 March 2015
Also featuring: Laura Ashe, Clare Lees