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.
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