BBC Radio 4 „Great Lives“: „Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians“

„She’s the most influ­en­tial woman that Eng­lish his­to­ry for­got, says Tom Hol­land – Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mer­cians, daugh­ter of Alfred the Great. Liv­ing and rul­ing at a time when the Anglo-Sax­ons were fight­ing back against the Vikings, Aethelflaed became a key fig­ure in the con­struc­tion of what we know today as Eng­land. But how much do we actu­al­ly know?
Join­ing Tom and Matthew Par­ris in the stu­dio is Sarah Foot, the Regius Pro­fes­sor of Eccle­si­as­ti­cal his­to­ry. Togeth­er they pick though the life of an aston­ish­ing char­ac­ter recent­ly recre­at­ed in Bernard Cornwell’s series The Last King­dom and played by Mil­lie Brady; and who also might have inspired Eowyn in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.“ (BBC)

Sie kön­nen die Sendung, die am 19.4.2019 in der Rei­he „Great Lives“ lief, über die Seite der BBC nach­hören oder als Audio­datei herun­ter­laden.

Bei „His­to­ry Hit“ ist übri­gens auch ein Artikel zu Aethelflaed erschienen.