Hello everyone, welcome to Dance No Sisteri, I am Dan Snow, talking to you, this is now

happening. A few years ago I was out drinking with Mark Morris, who is one of the most distinguished

medieval historians, I think in the world. Without drinking I said what are you doing next?

He said, I've got a plan, bear with me, bear with me, I'm going to write a history of

the Anglo-Saxons and you could see the look of mixed terror and admiration, admiration

for his bravery that passed across my face. And let me tell you folks, the book is now

landed, it is a masterpiece. You know in the Matrix when Kiana Reeves is like, I need

to learn Kung Fu, and so Morpheus just runs that program and then he just knows Kung Fu.

I've always felt like I just need to get my early medieval British history sorted. So

the Romans leave, William the Conqueror arrives, I need to get those intervening centuries

sorted out. And I've always wanted to be able to recite the English King list all the way from

Alfred and his successes through to Robert De Confessor and William where obviously it

becomes easy. And you know what, this book allowed me to do that. This book is the equivalent

in the Matrix of someone plugging something into your head. It just sorts you out, sorts

you right out. I now know who Edward the Elder's sons were. After Athelstan you get Edmund,

you get Eidrid, then you get Eidwig. I know that I'm so happy with myself and it's all

because of Mark Morris. It's all because of this brilliant book. This is everything you

need to know about early English history. Go and get this book, go and read it, it's wonderful.

It's everything you need to know about early English history. He's coming on the podcast

now, talk about it. It's a great pleasure to have him on, it's a big episode this folks.

We're going to get everyone up to speed. If you want to go and watch some early English

history, don't worry, we've got some history hit TV. You may have heard mentioned it before,

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