Chalke Talk

The podcast from the Chalke Valley History Festival
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153. EPIC CONTINENT: ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT STORIES OF EUROPE

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Award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber journeyed across Europe exploring it’s epic poems, from the Odyssey to Beowulf, the Song of Roland to the Nibelungenlied. In these tales soaked in blood and fire, Nicholas Jubber reveals how fantasy realms of gods and emperors, dragons and water-maidens, knights and princesses shaped our world: their deep impact on European identity, and their resonance in our turbulent times.



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