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Rex Factor

S1.05 Edmund I

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2010

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Our story thus far has been one of constant triumph for the Anglo-Saxon kings, and in 939AD the young Edmund I inherits a fully fledged English kingdom. But can the first "boy king" live up to the glories of his forebears and earn himself the ultimate accolade...the Rex Factor! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rex Factor.

0:10.0

This week, Edmund the first. This week, Edmund de first.

0:14.0

With your host,

0:18.0

with your host, Grand Duke and Ali Head. Oh, hello.

0:25.0

Welcome to another Rex Factor.

0:30.0

Indeed.

0:32.0

This week. Oh God no, you are showing forth. I was going to say, go on.

0:37.0

Edwin the first. Because to catch up with where we were we've just done Applestan

0:46.0

who was sort of third in line from Alfred Edward Edward the Elder

0:48.9

Atelstan they've all been building up gradually from threatened by the Vikings completely to actually

0:54.8

starting to dominate the whole England and Atholstand is pretty much

0:58.1

consolidated this actual England with a re- he's and he achieved a re-factor and a re-factor.

1:05.0

He is king of England.

1:06.0

That's quite a big kingdom that he's now left.

1:08.0

Britain.

1:09.0

Well, yes, Britain.

1:10.0

Essentially he's properly ruling the English bit that the British

1:13.7

bit is still so saying that they've quite big inheritance for someone to take on yeah

1:19.2

happen the first is the first of the six boy kings as they're known six in a row who are all very young

1:25.0

they take over. That implies that perhaps he wasn't up to the job? Well it's more about age I

1:30.3

think necessarily rather than ability although of course that's what we're going to be

1:34.6

judging. Okay. So I've got the cards here. Number four, poor of diamonds. He's again, crown. He looks, he looks the business.

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