Who was Robin Hood, and was he real? The English Faculty’s Prof Daniel Wakelin can be heard reading an extract from A Geste of Robin Hode on a recent episode of the BBC World Service’s World Update, which explores the origins of the famous literary outlaw. You can find the episode in its entirety here.
Prof Wakelin is the Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Medieval English Palaeography, Executive Secretary of the Early English Text Society, and an editor of the Review of English Studies.