TV Show Details
Air Date:May 28th, 2009
Last Air Date:May 28th, 2009
Status:Returning Series
Original Language:English
TV Show Tags:
beowulf
Michael Wood: In search of Beowulf (2009)
TV Show
Scripted
Plot
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.
