Penda's Fen
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"Penda's Fen" is the 16th episode of the fourth season of the British BBC anthology series Play for Today. The episode is a television play that was originally broadcast on 21 March 1974.
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Penda of Mercia
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Penda was a 7th-century king of Mercia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is today the Midlands. A pagan at a time when Christianity was taking hold in many of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Penda took over
Penda's Fen
…pagan past. All of this comes together in the growing pains of the adolescent Stephen, a vicar's son, whose encounters include angels, Edward Elgar and King Penda. Stephen is a devout Anglican traditionalist, believing in the sanctity of marriage and that the role of a family should be to raise children. Stephen…
Stained glass window, depicting the death of Penda at the Battle of the Winwaed, Worcester Cathedral