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The Makers of the Bayeux Tapestry
30/30 Gale Owen-Crocker explores the making of the Bayeux Tapestry.
Harold Godwinson
29/30 Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.
Edward the Confessor
28/30 Stephen Baxter creates a portrait of the remarkable Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor.
Aethelred the Unready
27/30 Simon Keynes discusses the life of the Anglo-Saxon monarch Aethelred.
Episode 26
26/30 Historian Pauline Stafford assesses the life of Queen Emma of Normandy.
Cnut the Great
25/30 Dr Timothy Bolton presents a portrait of Cnut, son of Sven Forkbeard, the king of Denmark.
Athelstan
24/30 A claim for King Athelstan to be reinstated as a more significant historical figure.
The Smith - Gold and Black
23/30 Lesley Webster on the life of the smith and his ambivalent status in Anglo-Saxon society.
Wynflaed
22/30 Michael Wood on Wynflaed, seen as the first woman in British history to have left a will.
Leoba
21/30 Barbara Yorke on Leoba, the 8th-century nun who became a pioneering abbess in Germany.
