Cnut ......The Dane who became King of England ..... one to listen to

Now this was one I enjoyed.

Cnut, 1016-1035

All I wanted to know about King Cnut .... with  the waves at the sea shore added in.

"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Danish prince who became a very effective King of England in 1016.

Cnut inherited a kingdom in a sorry state. 

The north and east coast had been harried by Viking raiders, and his predecessor King Æthelred II had struggled to maintain order amongst the Anglo-Saxon nobility too. Cnut proved to be skilful ruler. 

Not only did he bring stability and order to the kingdom, he exported the Anglo-Saxon style of centralised government to Denmark. Under Cnut, England became the cosmopolitan centre of a multi-national North Atlantic Empire, and a major player in European politics.

Cnut coin, 1016-1035

With, Erin Goeres, Associate Professor of Old Norse Language and Literature at University College London, Pragya Vohra, Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York, and, Elizabeth Tyler, Professor of Medieval Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York

Producer Luke Mulhall"

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*Cnut, In Our Time, Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kpty