Memorial day Veterans Day/BBC radio play

[Sally Haden]

Thanks so much Jeffrey for this information!  At the llth hour today, before
it was knocked off the BBC radio site, I managed to record it.
It was, as you say, entertainment, but it did give a bit of flavour to the
dry history.
Please keep such interesting references coming!
Sally
Lancashire, UK


>Those of you who found your way through to listen to the recent BBC
>interviews on the web might like to listen to a radio play tomorrow
>(Wednesday 12th November) on Radio 4 at 14.15hrs GMT.
>
>The review in my TV & Radio guide says:
>
>"In 1987 a grave was excavated in Worcester Cathedral.in an area usually
>reserved for the church elite, but the discovery of simple clothes and a
>cockleshell in the grave revealed that the man buried there was a pilgrim.
>Alex Jones' Afternoon Play -The Worcester Pilgrim (2.15pm, R4) is a flight
>of the.imagination spinning off from this discovery, being the story of
>William Dunn, a poor pilgrim who arrives at the gates of the cathedral in
>1403 and is turned away by the Prior before collapsing on the steps. He is
>taken in, and his Christ-like simplicity puts the decadence of the
>Prior -and the church itself -into question. David Hargreaves plays the
>pilgrim."

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