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The Christian Centuries

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A 12-part series
8: The Music of Angels
This week's stopping-off point for Brian Redhead in his journey through the middle ages is the tenth century
Principality of Kiev and its ruler, Vladimir, whose conversion to Christianity is marked in this year's millennium celebrations of the Russian Orthodox Church. Brian discovers Viking bodyguards in Byzantium, a babushka who was not required to prostrate herself before an automatic throne, the earliest recorded evidence of meals on wheels and an Archbishop of Canterbury who pinched the devil's nose with a pair of tongs. Reader RONALD FARROW Researcher IAN MORGAN
Series producer FRANCES GUMLEY

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