{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a505d442b60482dd289ce38/6a507284cf487ba3a9b2b22b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Full English in Miklagård","description":"<p>Degsy's mam, Brenda Higginbottom, has somehow reached the Arctic on mother's instinct — and she is NOT impressed. As Gaz and Degsy try to broadcast the story of the Swedish Vikings who went east, Brenda barges in with a fry-up and no respect whatsoever for live radio.</p><p><br></p><p>Tonight's history (all true, however loudly interrupted):</p><ul><li>The Varangian Guard — in 988, Emperor Basil II takes six thousand Viking hard-lads as his personal bodyguard.</li><li>- Miklagård — what the Norse called Constantinople, reached by rowing east down the rivers.</li><li>- Halfdan — a bored Varangian who carved his name in runes inside the Hagia Sophia. Still there a thousand years on.</li><li>- Ingvar the Far-Travelled — the great expedition east that never came home, remembered on runestones across Sweden.</li></ul><p>...with two original punk tracks: \"Miklagård\" and \"Proper Breakfast\".</p><p><br></p><p>Contains strong language. An AI-generated production: voices and music made with AI, history fact-checked by hand.</p>","author_name":"Anders Bjarby"}