Gudrun

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Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas.

Kate Phillips is Gudrun, in Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas.

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Kate Phillips

Samantha Dakin

Gavi Singh Chera

Alison Belbin

John Bowler

David Sterne

Rosa Yevtushenko

Sasha Yevtushenko

Lucy Catherine

Gudrun: Series 1: Episode 4

Gudrun's Saga

Episode 4

Series 1

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Lucy Catherine's modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga. 

Twice-widowed Gudrun is under threat when her uncles eye her large estate.  A husband would ward them off. Stars Kate Phillips.

Now twice a widow, Gudrun is under threat when her uncles begin to eye her large estate. A husband would ward them off.

Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising harshness.

Starring Kate Phillips.

Lucy Catherine’s re-telling of the Icelander classic, The Laxdoela Saga.

Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips
Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin
Bolli . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera
Thordis . . . . . Alison Belbin
Olaf . . . . . John Bowler
Hakkan . . . . . David Sterne
Sigrid . . . . . Rosa Yevtushenko

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016.

Gudrun: Series 1

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Lucy Catherine's retelling of a classic Icelanders' saga.

Lucy Catherine's retelling of a classic Icelanders' saga. A young woman in 1100s Iceland must forge her path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising harshness.

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