Ethelred the Unready
We Are History
Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening, I said that weird, didn't I? |
| 0:06.1 | That's right, we'll carry on. |
| 0:07.9 | Hello, I'm listening to you're listening to, hello, Angela. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm auditioning to be a game show host, apparently. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to We Are HistoryPod. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Angela Barnes. |
| 0:17.9 | And I am John O'Farrow. |
| 0:19.9 | And now today we are doing a subject. |
| 0:23.8 | John's laughing at me already today. |
| 0:26.0 | I chose today's topic purely because it's about a person whose name. |
| 0:32.5 | I used to hear it all the time and knew nothing about him at all. |
| 0:37.1 | So I thought that would be interesting. |
| 0:39.0 | And I am talking about Ethelred the Unready. |
| 0:42.3 | Right. |
| 0:43.0 | Right? |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.2 | Anglo-Saxon King. |
| 0:45.8 | The longest serving Anglo-Saxon King. |
| 0:49.1 | Now, despite doing quite a lot of reading about Ethelred, the Unready, I still can't say I know an awful lot about it. |
| 0:56.1 | Well, that's the thing about the dark age. |
| 0:57.5 | This is the thing that I never really took into account |
| 0:59.7 | being a modern history nerd is where everything was written down. |
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