Ipswich History Podcast - Episode 1 - Basil Brown

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 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-58933

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