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Beowulf

BBC Radio 3
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abridged by MICHAEL
AI.EXANDER from his own translation. Read by Harvey Hallsmith
The first in a six-part reading of the Old
English Epic Poem, the greatest work of Anglo-Saxon literature. It tells of the heroic struggle of Beowulf against Grendel's evil and. through this story, of the life and death of a civilisation. Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

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Read By:
Harvey Hallsmith
Producer:
Brian Miller
Source: Radio Times

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