A series of portraits of significant men and women from the Anglo Saxon era.

Another chance to hear an Essay by the Nobel prize-winner the late Seamus Heaney, recorded before he died in 2013. This is his portrait of the great Beowulf bard and of the court poet in general - known as the "scop" in old English - a man skilled in song and the pure art of story telling.

Producer: Beaty Rubens

First broadcast January 2013. Show less