Hi everyone, welcome to Ansono's History Hip. Today I'm going to feature an episode of

the very very brilliant Gone Medieval, my sibling podcast, which is all about medieval history,

really from the end of the Western Empire of Rome till, well they always try and steal

a bit of early modernist guys, you're going to watch them, they're watching like hawks,

they'll be doing nuclear weapons soon. Anyway, it's meant to be medieval history. And

what the great episodes recently was this one which I enjoyed very much. Ethel Red, the

one already, Ethel Red. Now I'm calling the unready, Ethel Red was one of the longest

serving monarchs in English history, 38 years if you can believe that. It was a short

interruption there because a Viking called Swain Fort made much to chuck him off the throne

towards the end, but then he died likely, but don't know if the red died. Anyway, that's

certainly medieval history for you. Ethel Red, son of the mighty King Edgar, who has that

kind of reasonable shout to be a first king of England, really. Well, you've got a better

shout anyway, I think than Alfred and Ethel Stan, the two that are often given. Anyway,

let's not get into that. His son was Ethel Red, but unlike his rather effective father,

Ethel Red seemed unable to hold back the new Norse, the new Viking invasions and ended

up losing the crown. But what's the end ready? What's he responsible for this? What was

he like? We asked the world's leading expert in this podcast. We asked Levi Roachley University

of Exeter. He's an absolute legend when it comes to this period. It's an unbelievably fascinating

period. I really just love it. It is essential to understanding subsequent English and British

history, essential to understanding the nature of the country in which well we live. If you

live in England and Britain, it's essential to understanding subsequent history. And it's

some pretty important. If you want to work out just why the 11th century was so damned,

...