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An Introduction to Beowulf

BBC Radio 3
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Michael Alexander, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Stirling, who has published three volumes on old English poetry including the Penguin Classic edition of Beowulf, talks about the greatest Anglo-Saxon epic in the context of Anglo-Saxon poetry in general.
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Speaker:
Michael Alexander
Reader:
Julian Glover
Producer:
Brian Miller
Source: Radio Times

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