Music Makers (radio): The Saga of Erik Nobeard
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companyBBC
started12th Sep
1988
ended16th Sep
1988
1 school year
episodes10
duration20 mins
languageenIn English
The Saga of Erik Nobeard is a unit of the BBC schools radio series Music Makers from the 1980s, covering music for primary and secondary school pupils.
A comic musical based on a Norse legend.
Amongst all the many conquering and impressively bearded Vikings who come to seek the hand of his daughter, King Harald selects the young, unaccomplished and distinctly un-bearded Erik Nobeard. The mischievous god Loki intervenes and send Erik on a quest to prove himself by slaying the monster Grumbel.
Songs
- The Vikings Are Coming!
- The Choice Is Mine
- Rejected
- Reading the Runes
- Odin's Daughters
- It's Grumbel!
- An Answer to Our Dreams!
Broadcasts
- Autumn 1988 - two episodes per day over one week, to facilitate block recording
Credits
| Introduced by | Ian Humphris Jill Shilling |
| Written by | Edward Kelsey |
| Music by | Peter Hutchings |
| Producer | Peter Hutchings |
Resources
Pupils' pamphlet
Teachers' notes
Acting script
Melodic instrument parts
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