ST. HILDA ON THE RADIO

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In this episode Melvyn Bragg and his guests John Blair (Fellow in History at The Queen's College, Oxford), Rosemary Cramp (Emeritus Professor in Archaeology at Durham) and Sarah Foot (Professor of Early Medieval History at Sheffield) forensically explore the life of St. Hilda (or Hild, as she would have been known). They speak about the Synod of Whitby, the Song of Caedmon, everyday life in the monastery and the evolution of Whitby as an important centre of learning for the early Christian church.

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