BBC Four Presents Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of the jewels in the crown of British poetry Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written about 600 years ago by an unknown author The poem has got just about everything it is an actionpacked adventure a ghost story a steamy romance a morality tale and the worlds first ecopoem Armitage follows in the footsteps of the poems hero Gawain through some of Britains most beautiful and mystical landscapes and reveals why an absurd tale of a knight beheading a green giant is as relevant and compelling today as when it was written