This first episode of the Ipswich History Podcast explores the life and work of Basil Brown, who is best known for his excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial in the summer of 1939. But, as we will discover, there was much more of interest to the man than that.

Interviewees

Gilbert Burroughes

Jude Plouviez

Philip Wise

Podcast artwork

Kelly Wadsworth

Podcast script and music

Caleb Howgego

Sources

Durrant, Chris, Basil Brown, Astronomer, Archaeologist, Enigma, (n.p., 2004)

Marzinzik, Sonja, The Sutton Hoo Helmet, (The British Museum Press, 2007)

Plunkett, Steven J., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-58933

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