Gudrun

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Drama: Historical

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

Rosie Boore

Philip Fox

Kerry Gooderson

Finlay Robertson

Gemma Jenkins

Lucy Catherine

Gudrun: Series 2: Episode 1

Gudrun's Saga

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BBC Radio 4 - Gudrun, Series 2, Episode 1

Kate Phillips returns as Icelandic heroine Gudrun in Lucy Catherine's Viking epic.

4 Extra Debut. Left reeling from the part she played in her lover's death Gudrun plans to win back her husband.  Stars Kate Phillips.

Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, forges her path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising harshness. Left reeling from the part she played in her lover's death she's determined to rebuild her family and win back the trust of her husband.

Starring Kate Phillips.

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

Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips
Freija ….. Samantha Dakin
Bolli ….. Gavi Singh Chera
Sigrid ….. Rosie Boore
Olaf ….. Philip Fox
Hrefna/Gaddja ….. Kerry Gooderson

Director:  Gemma Jenkins

The first series ended with the death of Gudrun's lover, Kjartan, killed by his best friend and brother, Bolli. Bolli is married to Gudrun. He suspects his wife was behind the blood feud that led to Kjartan's death. Kjartan married into Norwegian royalty and when his wife returns to Iceland with plans to convert the country to Christianity it becomes clear her motives are far from pious.

Gudrun is under the protection of Freija, the Norse Goddess of love and war. She can sometimes be as slippery a customer as her protégée. Freija's voice cries out for a new kind of leadership. Is she really on Gudrun's side or does she have an agenda of her own?

Suspicious of how power and ambition are wielded by men Gudrun's left feeling increasingly isolated. She longs for the freedom to live her life according to her own rules, beholden to no-one.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017.

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