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Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell

James Naughtie talks to the novelist Bernard Cornwell.

Bookclub · BBC Radio 4

February 1, 200927m 36s

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Show Notes

James Naughtie talks to the novelist Bernard Cornwell. He joins an audience of readers to discuss the first novel in his series set in Saxon England, The Last Kingdom. The novel centres on the story of Uhtred Ragnarson, a Northumbrian boy captured by the invading Vikings and raised as one of their own, who returns to the Saxons after the Danish warrior who raised him is killed.