Pagans and Pilgrims: Britain's Holiest Places

"In this documentary series, Ifor ap Glyn travels across Britain, exploring some if its most holy and sacred sites."

In this documentary series, Ifor ap Glyn travels across Britain, exploring some if its most holy and sacred sites.

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Status	Returning Series
Original Name	Pagans and Pilgrims: Britain's Holiest Places
First Air Date	March 7, 2013
Last Air Date	April 11, 2013
Seasons	1
Episodes	6
Episode Runtime	0min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United Kingdom
Production Companies	BBC Four
Networks	Channel 4

S01E06

Caves

Ifor sets out to understand what happens when our religious urges drive us underground. His first stop is Lud's Church in Derbyshire, one of the most dramatic and eerie holy places in the land, once described as 'the place for the Devil to say matins'. Ifor then heads back 14,000 years to find evidence of perhaps the oldest holy place in Britain. He follows the path of St Cuthbert's body as it was shifted between caves in the north of England to escape the attentions of Viking raiders and visits the cave of St Govan where a hermit was miraculously enveloped in rock to evade local gangs of wreckers. He meets a nun in Norwich who tells him about a young woman who was bricked up alive for over 40 years in an act of almost unbelievable devotion and finally heads to a crypt of Ripon Cathedral to discover one of the most dramatic pieces of religious theatre in Britain.

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