The sixth in a series of eight films about England before the Norman Conquest , written and presented by Michael Wood
Eric Bloodaxe : a name from fairy-tales; an image from a childhood
'adventure story. He was, in fact, twice king in York, the last ruler of an independent Northumbria.
Filmed in the autumnal colours and light of Northumberland and Cumbria; MICHAEL WOOD describes a deep-seated split between north and south, and re-creates the ' thought world ' of a tenth-century war-lord.
Producer DEREK TOWERS
BBC Manchester