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Book at Bedtime: Beowulf: 1

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

In ten programmes, Seamus Heaney reads from his new translation of the great Anglo-Saxon poem.

In the years after the funeral of King Shield Sheafson, the warrior of the Danes, the evil fiend Grendel rises to prowl the land. At the court of Hygelac in Geatland, a great warrior prepares to help King Hrothgar.

Contributors

Reader/Translator:
Seamus Heaney
Producer:
Susan Roberts
Source: Radio Times

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