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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Series exploring Britain's glorious sacred sites in a landscape journey that reveals inspirational, surprising and half-forgotten holy places which bring to life our spiritual history.
- Ep 1
1.Ruins
07-03-2013In the first episode, Ifor explores why ruins are among the best-preserved and most-loved holy sites in Britain. He visits the famous ruins of St Andrews Cathedral, the mystical at...
- Ep 2
2.Water
14-03-2013In the second episode, Ifor explores why water crops up again and again as the essential element in many of our most holy places. Why has a yearning for pure natural water always b...
- Ep 3
3.Trees and Mountains
21-03-2013Ifor visits trees and mountains as a way of understanding the journey Britain undertook from the old Pagan religion to Christianity. His journey starts in Glastonbury, site of the...
- Ep 4
4.Shrines
28-03-2013Ifor sets out to understand the appeal of shrines. For those outside the Catholic and Orthodox church there is something vaguely unsettling about shrines. How can venerating the bo...
- Ep 5
5.Islands
04-04-2013Ifor sets out to understand the appeal of islands as holy retreats. It may seem obvious that we would feel closer to the divine when surrounded by the stunning natural beauty of an...
- Ep 6
6.Caves
11-04-2013Ifor 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...
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