A historical imagination in concelebration of the ninth centenary of the Norman Conquest
Written and compiled by MICHAEL MASON
The documentation drawn from William of Poitiers, William of Jumieges, the Anglo-Saxon Chron
« icle, the ' Roman de Rou,' William of Malmesbury. and other contemporary and later sources
Readers,
HUGH DICKSON , GARY WATSON
Narrator, ROBIN HOLMES
Commentators (in order of first appearance):
Professor GWYN JONES
COMMANDER D. L. GORDON , R.N. DR. D. P. WALEY
DR. Michael HOSKIN
PROFESSOR R. W. SOUTHERN MAJOR-GENERAL H. ESSAME
PROFESSOR REGINALD DOUWELL GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH MRS. DITA MALLET
COLONEL G. 1. A. D. DRAPER
The excerpt from ' The Song of Roland ' chanted by BRIAN LEVY.
Translations of Anglo-Saxon poetry by Michael Alexander (the excerpts from the Finnesburh Fragment and the Oyster Riddle translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland ). The translation of 'The Song of Roland ' by Charles Scott-Moncrieff
Special sound by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Research advisers:
Hilary Jones , Jeremy Nicklin Produced by MICHAEL MASON and GEORGE MAcBETH
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