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In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined by Professor Elizabeth Tyler and comedian Jen Brister in early medieval England to learn all about Queen Emma of Normandy. Emma was wife to two English kings \\u2013 Aethelred and Cnut \\u2013 and mother to two more, Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor. She was a key player in the complex politics of eleventh-century England, and symbolised the overlapping English, Norman and Scandinavian identities at play in England even before the Norman conquest of 1066. This episode traces Emma\\u2019s life from her childhood in Normandy, through her marriages to the English Aethelred and Danish Cnut, and into her final years as mother to the king. Along the way, it explores Emma\\u2019s political savvy, and the messy family relationships that shaped early medieval English history. \\n \\nResearch by: Josh Rice\\nWritten by: Josh Rice, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner\\nProduced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner\\nAudio Producer: Steve Hankey\\nSenior Producer: Emma Nagouse