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The Essay

Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

Arthur Begins

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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The Essay continues its epic exploration of the lives, tribes and traces of Albion's Iron Age peoples. Archaeologist Miles Russell returns not to the earth but to the earliest accounts of the story of King Arthur revealed not as a medieval icon of chivalry but as a blood-soaked berserker with Iron Age roots.

Producer: Mark Burman Show less

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