Emma of Normandy

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined by Professor Elizabeth Tyler and comedian Jen Brister in early medieval England to learn all about Queen Emma of Normandy. Emma was wife to two English kings – Aethelred and Cnut – and mother to two more, Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor. She was a key player in the complex politics of eleventh-century England, and symbolised the overlapping English, Norman and Scandinavian identities at play in England even before the Norman conquest of 1066. This episode traces Emma’s life from her childhood in Normandy, through her marriages to the English Aethelred and Danish Cnut, and into her final years as mother to the king. Along the way, it explores Emma’s political savvy, and the messy family relationships that shaped early medieval English history. Research by: Josh Rice Written by: Josh Rice, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse

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0:42.0	My name is Greg Jenner. I'm a
0:44.0	public historian author and broadcaster and today we are donning our most glamorous
0:48.2	glad rags fixing our fascinators and attending not one but two royal weddings as we travel all the way back to
0:54.4	medieval Europe to meet the magnificent Queen Emma of Normandy and to help us we have
0:59.3	two very special guests. In History Corner she's professor of medieval literature and the director of the
1:04.5	Center for Medieval Studies at the University of York. She specializes in the
1:08.0	literary culture of England from the ninth to the 12th century and,
1:11.2	handily for us, she's particularly interested in medieval English
1:13.6	Queens it's professor Elizabeth Tyler welcome Elizabeth
1:16.0	hi thanks for having me it's great to be here oh we're delighted to have you here and
1:19.6	in comedy corner she's a stand-up comedian actor and writer. You'll have seen her on all the
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