the age of twilight

Darkness falls over Wuffinga-land, and an autumnal day comes to a close. Chieftains sleep forever in their buried ships, and Mrs. Edith Pretty consults the spirits, while Basil Brown, trowel in hand, scrapes away the soil of centuries. Sharon's on a patch of heathland recording the rutting red deer, before she realises that the beaten tracks have dissolved into the darkness, and she's now lost. Sharon Sanderson - field recordings Robert Sanderson - atmospherics voices - Professor H.C.Wyld, an academic and linguist, reading an extract from Beowulf Basil Brown, a local self-taught archaeologist explaining how he discovered the remains of a buried ship at Sutton Hoo