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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time
Icelandic Sagas Thursday 9th May 2013
The Icelandic Sagas were first written down in the 13th century and tell the stories of the Norse settlers who began to arrive in Iceland 400 years before. They contain some of the richest and most extraordinary writing of the Middle Ages. Full of heroes, feuds, ghosts and outlaws, the sagas inspired later writers including Sir Walter Scott, William Morris and WH Auden. Melvyn Bragg is joined by Carolyne Larrington, Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford; Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, University Lecturer in Scandinavian History at the University of Cambridge and Emily Lethbridge, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Árni Magnússon Manuscripts Institute in Reykjavík.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/r ... ot/iot_20130509-1045a.mp3
Icelandic Sagas Thursday 9th May 2013
The Icelandic Sagas were first written down in the 13th century and tell the stories of the Norse settlers who began to arrive in Iceland 400 years before. They contain some of the richest and most extraordinary writing of the Middle Ages. Full of heroes, feuds, ghosts and outlaws, the sagas inspired later writers including Sir Walter Scott, William Morris and WH Auden. Melvyn Bragg is joined by Carolyne Larrington, Fellow and Tutor in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford; Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, University Lecturer in Scandinavian History at the University of Cambridge and Emily Lethbridge, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Árni Magnússon Manuscripts Institute in Reykjavík.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/r ... ot/iot_20130509-1045a.mp3
I am planning to update this list as it is very out of date.
What Tolkien Podcasts do people think should be on this list in 2021?
- Prancing Pony Podcast
- Tolkien Experience
- The Tolkien Professor
What Tolkien Podcasts do people think should be on this list in 2021?
The Nerd of the Rings should be on a new list, I think. I am sure there are others as well, but I don't have a lot of time for listening these days.
I rather enjoy By-the-Bywater. Keep on Tolkien is also fun if you can put up with silliness and some explicit language.
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