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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

31. The Great War

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week Neil’s journey takes us in search of the battle whose ferocity, violence and savagery shocked the whole of the British Isles and shaped its borders for ever – the battle of Brunanburh.


The repercussions from this momentous battle, fought in AD 937, have reverberated right up to the present day. Long remembered as the Great War this was the battle that sliced the long island in two!


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0:00.0

The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday.

0:04.5

Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize.

0:06.7

But who will it be?

0:07.7

Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

0:10.6

Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket.

0:13.1

Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms

0:17.6

rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. mighty the mercy in

0:26.8

mercy in hard was his hand play

0:30.4

sparing not any doomed to the death. Five young kings put asleep by the sword stroke.

0:37.0

Seven strong erels of the army of Anlaf fell on the warfield.

0:44.0

In this podcast we're searching for a place that's become lost in time. The location of a battle that was

0:58.0

fought over a thousand years ago. The girls and the Pitts and the Britons in the north join forces.

1:07.0

The southern angles have grown in size and power.

1:12.0

Those two forces meet in a ferocious combat, a bloody fight long remembered for its gruesome cruelty.

1:21.0

It became known as the Great War and the repercussions of that battle are still reverberating

1:29.9

across the British Isles to this day.

1:34.6

I'm stepping out across Britain

1:36.4

to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me,

1:40.6

and the whole world.

1:42.4

I'm Neil Oliver, and this is my love letter to the British Isles.

1:47.0

I'm Neil. Hi Neil, last week we traveled with you to the heart of Modern Winchester to track down the bones of Alfred the Great, one of the most influential and charismatic kings ever to govern in these

2:06.2

Isles.

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