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Rex Factor

S1.07 Eadwig

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2010

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Eadwig's accession to the throne in 955 sees a new generation wearing the crown in Anglo-Saxon England, but the ministers of state remain the same and from the very start Eadwig finds himself at odds with Dunstan, Odo and Eadgifu. Will the third boy king, with a penchant for scandal, be able to win the struggle for control of his kingdom? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to Rex Factor! This week and we. Edwy. With your host, Grand Duke and Ali Wood. Ali.

0:55.0

Hello. Hello.

0:57.0

Welcome to yet another X Factor.

1:00.0

And as the introduction said this week on Edwig or Edwy, if you were.

1:06.0

Yeah, we settled on Edwig.

1:08.0

Edwyck sounds better, I think.

1:10.0

I mean, there's no academic reason behind it. Is there all?

1:13.3

No, I don't really know quite how the reason. I guess it's the way that they

1:17.6

translate the old English. I'm not quite sure.

1:19.6

Okay. But, right, so let's, um, let's crack up. Well, should we explain a quick refresh?

1:25.7

Quick refresh. Last week we had Edred, who was brother to the previous King,

1:32.0

Edwin I and son of Edward the Elder and Edreds had a

1:36.9

quite brief rain saw off the northern independence efforts under Eric the blood axe but was sick didn't last very long

1:47.0

couldn't choose food dies did kunjuous food died without any children so we we've had two, actually three sons with

1:55.1

Athlstan of Edward the elder but now they're all gone. We've moved on to the next

1:58.3

generation which is the son of Edwin the first which is

2:03.0

Edwig.

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