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the-busy-ghost · 4 months

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The fact that there has never been an In Our Time episode devoted to Aelred of Rievaulx is bizarre to me, out of all the subjects that are tailor made for that programme and its interests, as well as the specific background of its host, I mean come on

#We've had episodes on Bede and Cuthbert and Alcuin #We've had episodes on David I of Scotland and on the twelfth century Renaissance #We've had episodes on friendship and monasticism and history-writing #You're telling me Melvyn Bragg couldn't find room for a discussion of a Hexham boy who embodied all of those things #I mean I realise In Our Time is trying to have a broad appeal and should cover more subjects than just local British interests #However it just seems to me that Aelred of Rievaulx was meant to have an In Our Time episode about him #Like I don't think he should have movies or a major popular history book or whatever #The form of public media he was grown in a laboratory to be represented in was In Our Time #Trying to restrain myself from recommending it on the bit where they ask listeners to suggest topics #I may be blinkered by the fact that no matter what essay I write about whatever aspect or time period in the Middle Ages #Aelred always pops up somehow- but he's not exactly Bernard of Clairvaux or Thomas Aquinas after all; he's undoubtedly a lesser known figur #I'm not blind to this and it may be my personal bias #I'm just now seized with the constant thought of 'Does Melvyn Bragg know about this' because I'm convinced it would be right up his street #Also this post is a very niche interest I am well aware but if it finds the mutuals it's meant to find then that's all that matters

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