EPISODE · Dec 27, 2018 · 15 MIN
The Beowulf Bard
from The Essay · host BBC Radio 3
Another chance to hear an Essay by the Nobel prize-winner the late Seamus Heaney, recorded before he died in 2013. This is his portrait of the great Beowulf bard and of the court poet in general - known as the "scop" in old English - a man skilled in song and the pure art of story telling. Producer: Beaty Rubens
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