Matt Lewis

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1,437 appearances 30 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard today

Matt Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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at least a millennium. matched

I'll give it to you. matched

I try matched

easier. matched

The Anglo-Saxon period sits after the evacuation of Britain by the Roman Empire. matched

So they kind of leave culminating kind of 410. matched

They begin to withdraw military protection for Roman citizens in Britain. matched

And that creates a huge vacuum of power. matched

And from around about 450, we think, onwards, we get the arrival of tribes who are called the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. matched

get lost in all of this. matched

But there's very definitely significant numbers of Angles, Saxons and Jutes coming over. matched

And they're coming from what today is northern Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, places like that. matched

What we're not clear about is precisely why they come. matched

Do they see somewhere that is vulnerable because the Roman Empire has left and think, looks like a great place to attack, let's give it a go. matched

There is also some hint that they're coming over as paid mercenaries. matched

I think there's a sense that the Britons are feeling like they need some kind of protection, that things are getting a little bit chaotic matched

we need some muscle to come in and help look after us, help to defend territories. matched

Because what does it mean when Rome no longer rules the whole of Britain? matched

It's fragmenting, it's breaking up everywhere. matched

You've got to try and cling on to something. matched

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