I have recently become interested in the origin of the English people and particularly the Anglo-Saxon 'origin' of the peoples.
I am looking for audio book recommendations on the subject, something to walk the dog to, preferably something that is looking to challenge the orthodox Bead lead narrative of an 'invasion' and large scale population displacement.
Hopefully you can help!
As /both u/BRIStoneman and I recently summarized respectively in Why didn't Celtic Britain unite against the Anglo-Saxons? and What happened to the native Britons after the Anglo Saxons came?, Susan Oosthuizen, the Emergence of the English, Kalamazoo, MI: Arc Humanities, 2019, is a convenient short book that summarized the latest basic consensus among the scholars on the topic.
The author also appears in the following podcast/ videos:
These might not be audio books, but they are AFAIK closest ones OP mentioned above.
If you are further interested in this topic after Oosthuizen's introduction, centered also around the critical re-interpretation of a few key texts like Gildas' the Ruin of Britain and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, I'd also recommend some of Nick Higham's works, like Anglo-Saxon World (with M. J. Ryan), New Haven: Yale UP, 2015 or An English Empire: Bede and the Early Anglo-Saxon Kings, Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995.