Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. Recently, over at History Hit TV, the

world's best history channel, Dr. Eleanor Janiga is smashing all of our records with her

new series on Medieval Lives. Everybody loves her in the New Year's series, looks at

what life was like, for actual people in the Medieval period and she does it with her own

particular style. There's made her, the platform's favorite documentary maker of the moment.

I am absolutely thrilled about that and I'm particularly thrilled, therefore on this

podcast to say that we are going to play an interview that I did with Eleanor last year

on YouTube. It was part of our series of History Hit Lives on Timeline, our partner channel

on YouTube. And we talked about some of this same material, we talked about the reality

of life at Medieval Britain, but across Europe as well. And naturally, she slayed, slayed

some of the myths that we all have about the Medieval world. If you want to listen to this,

then go and check out Eleanor on History Hit TV. You can do so, just sign up to History

Hit.TV, you can check them out. I spent the weekend hearing across England on the footstep

to the Great Heathen Army with another Medieval specialist, Dr. Kat Jarman. She's an early

medieval Viking specialist and she took me from East Anglia all the way into the heart

of Wessex on the footstep to that Great Heathen Army, which in the ninth century toppled

one kingdom after another marched into the heart of Wessex where it was defeated by Alfred.

And a battlefield that we're not sure exactly where it is frustratingly. But you know,

watch this space. We've got a few projects in the works at History Hit. We might be making

some discoveries in that department. Thank you again to everyone who subscribes to History

Hit TV, Eleanor Annika's series. My journey with Kat, none of that would take place if

it wasn't for you subscribing. Thank you. I know I said a lot and I mean it. It is just

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