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Early Versions Episodes

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    Elizabeth I

    Why didn't Queen Elizabeth l marry? A handwritten speech offers clues as to why

  2. Sumer Is Icumen In

    How did a secular song end up being written and preserved by medieval monks?

  3. The Tracking Satyrs

    The recovery and restoration of Sophocles' lost play The Tracking Satyrs

  4. Diamond Sutra

    The remarkable discovery of the world's earliest printed book

  5. Leonardo da Vinci

    Why were Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks written backwards?

  6. The Lindisfarne Gospels

    The history of one of the most beautiful medieval books in Britain

  7. Codex Sinaiticus

    The text of Codex Sinaiticus, a hand-written ancient copy of the Greek Bible

  8. Beowulf

    The history of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf