Genres

Documentary , History , Fantasy

Duration

59 min

Director

Arif Nurmohamed

Rating

Rating not available

Release Date

Not available

Michael Wood on Beowulf

Original title: Michael Wood on Beowulf

Synopsis

Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawing on other Anglo-Saxon classics, he traces the birth of English poetry back to the Dark Ages. Travelling across the British Isles from East Anglia to Scotland and with the help of Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, actor Julian Glover, local historians and enthusiasts, he brings the story and language of this iconic poem to life.