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

John Dougall

Nicholas Murchie

Finlay Robertson

Karen Bartke

Sasha Yevtushenko

Lucy Catherine

Gudrun: Series 1: Episode 2

Gudrun's Saga

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Series 1

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

Married off to a much older man, Gudrun is isolated in a remote part of the country. Will she fly or fight? Stars Kate Phillips.

Married off to a much older man, Gudrun is now isolated in a remote part of the country. Will she fly or fight?

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
Osvif . . . . . John Dougall
Thorvald . . . . . Nicholas Murchie
Hallbjorn . . . . . Finlay Robertson
Volva . . . . . Karen Bartke

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016.

Gudrun: Series 1

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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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