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3/4. Beowulf. The origins of this great epic poem are hard to trace as it is thought to have started in the oral tradition. But experts Professor Elaine Treharne and Dr Andrew Prescott agree that the Anglo-Saxon burial ground of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk gives a very visible clue to life at the time of its writing. With Joan Bakewell. Repeated from Sunday

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Joan Bakewell.
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