Search for Alfred

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Skeletons in the National Cupboard

by Charles West on January 22, 2014

Last night, BBC 2 aired its Search for Alfred the Great, presented by star TV presenter Neil Oliver. The programme's plot had however been been given away the week before at a press conference in Winchester, which

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