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m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | "Sacred to the memory of Doris
Butterfield. Ee, she WAS thin!" | 104,200 | 109,240 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | I suppose it's all these...tombs
that's made me think of that. | 110,560 | 115,600 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Let's come in a bit closer. | 116,680 | 119,520 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | A very good afternoon to you
and a very warm welcome
to Westminster Abbey this afternoon. | 120,880 | 127,840 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Let me introduce myself. I'm one
of the team of vergers here, | 127,840 | 133,000 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and amongst our tasks here is to
take you, our visitors and guests,
around the Abbey on a Supertour. | 133,000 | 141,080 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Most of the tombs
had railings or grilles | 141,080 | 145,320 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | to protect them from the prising
fingers of pilgrims and sightseers, | 145,320 | 151,040 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and in some tombs, like this
of Eleanor of Castile in 1290, | 151,040 | 155,640 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | the original railings still survive. | 155,640 | 158,320 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | But most were taken away by that
excellent sculptor, but foolish man,
Francis Chantrey, in 1822. | 158,320 | 165,720 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | About as futile and misguided
a decision as Lord Beaverbrook's
as Minister of Aircraft Production, | 165,720 | 173,280 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | taking away everyone's
garden railings in 1940. | 173,280 | 177,560 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | It's the kind of wrong-thinking
official vandalism that happens | 177,560 | 184,280 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | every day, not just in 1822. | 177,560 | 184,280 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Inscribed over the portals of every
English institution ought to be the
words of 17th-C Viscount Falkland: | 184,280 | 191,360 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | "If it's not necessary to change,
it's necessary NOT to change." | 191,360 | 196,400 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The Abbey is a bewildering place. | 201,800 | 205,080 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Chapels above chapels, and chapels
beyond that, all cluttered
with tombs and monuments. | 205,080 | 211,920 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | It's like something out of Piranesi,
or the architecture of dreams. | 211,920 | 216,920 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | As one goes over a bridge, up steps
into a succession of small rooms, | 216,920 | 222,000 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | it feels as it did when one was
a child, being taken through
the grotto to meet Santa Claus. | 222,000 | 229,440 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The earlier kings of England
used to be crowned
in Winchester Cathedral. | 229,440 | 235,560 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Mind you, William was crowned here
AND at Winchester. | 235,560 | 240,040 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The concerns that govern
human behaviour in life | 240,040 | 245,480 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | do not grow less petty or more noble
in death. | 245,480 | 249,680 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Did one want a single guiding
principle about burial in the Abbey,
it would be: | 249,680 | 255,640 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | "Whom would you like
to be seen dead with?" | 255,640 | 259,960 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | For centuries, the centre of gravity | 259,960 | 263,120 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | was the shrine of Edward the
Confessor, saint and king. Royalty
were buried as near as possible, | 263,120 | 269,760 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | huddling up
to this illustrious corpse. | 269,760 | 273,840 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | We have Henry III, Edward I, Henry V, | 273,840 | 277,000 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | umpteen royal personages! | 277,000 | 281,960 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | And here...is Richard II. | 281,960 | 284,840 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | ..canonised and became known
as St Edward. | 286,680 | 290,920 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Quite something, having a king made
a saint! Not many have qualified | 290,920 | 297,160 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | in the past. | 290,920 | 297,160 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | From the shrine,
one can see Poets' Corner where,
on a pillar, is Blake's bust. | 297,160 | 303,200 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | His first job had been with
a printmaker, and he'd been sent
as a boy to draw the tombs. | 303,200 | 309,920 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | It gave him a lifelong obsession
with the recumbent figure. | 309,920 | 314,960 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | So when he draws God
or the Ancient of Days as a flowing
figure with hanging-down hair, | 314,960 | 321,480 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | he's thinking
of this effigy of Edward III
which he first drew as a boy. | 321,480 | 329,120 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Edward III's body is in the tomb
below his effigy. | 329,120 | 334,600 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Likewise, Richard II and Henry III. | 334,600 | 338,280 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | But one king isn't
where he should be - the founder
of the Stuart dynasty, James I. | 338,280 | 344,280 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He ought to be in the Lady Chapel, | 344,280 | 347,560 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | beside the body of his wife,
Anne of Denmark, whose tombstone
is somewhere under the organ. | 347,560 | 354,640 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | She was 6'7", and he was somewhat
shorter, so they must have made
rather an odd couple! | 354,640 | 361,120 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | When the dean, Dean Stanley, broke
into the vault, he found the huge | 361,120 | 367,880 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | coffin of Anne of Denmark, | 361,120 | 367,880 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | but no sign of James I. | 367,880 | 370,760 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He then embarked on a search
through the vaults
under the floor of the chapel, | 370,760 | 377,240 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and made some touching
and macabre discoveries. | 377,240 | 382,400 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The search took him first
down into the Stuart family vault
which is below this side chapel. | 388,840 | 396,400 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Here were the coffins of
Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles II,
William and Mary, Queen Anne, | 396,400 | 402,640 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | but no James I. | 402,640 | 405,240 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He didn't expect, at the foot of the
steps leading down into the vault, | 409,360 | 414,360 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | a great tumbled heap of
much smaller coffins, some of them
no larger than a cigar box. | 414,360 | 422,760 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | These were the ten babies
of Charles II and his brother James, | 422,760 | 427,720 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and the 18 babies - many of them
stillborn - of Queen Anne, | 427,720 | 433,200 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | some of them anonymous,
even unchristened. | 433,200 | 437,240 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Only one had survived
into proper childhood -
William, Duke of Gloucester, | 437,240 | 443,280 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | who died, aged 11, in 1700,
of a fever occasioned by excessive
dancing on his birthday. | 443,280 | 451,320 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Bodies then were wrapped in lead
before putting them in their coffin, | 451,320 | 456,360 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and since many of the coffins
had perished, | 456,360 | 460,440 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | this pathetic heap of infants,
the wreck of the Stuart dynasty, | 460,440 | 465,600 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | must have looked like
a little pile of grey jellybabies. | 465,600 | 471,120 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Not all royal infants
went to the grave so unlamented. | 475,040 | 480,080 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | This is the tomb of Princess Sophie,
the daughter of James I. | 480,080 | 485,200 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Rather an elderly baby,
she died only three days old. | 485,200 | 490,120 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | This is her sister, Princess Mary,
who died the following year,
aged two. She'd just learned to talk. | 491,280 | 500,040 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | As she was dying, she said,
"I go, I go, at last I go!" | 500,040 | 505,600 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Still in Children's Corner... | 507,640 | 510,440 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | In this urn are some bones
found in the Tower of London
in 1674, | 510,440 | 517,120 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and buried here by Charles II,
thinking, or hoping, perhaps, | 517,120 | 522,920 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | that they were the bones
of the Princes in the Tower,
perhaps murdered by Richard III. | 522,920 | 530,160 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The urn was designed
by Christopher Wren. | 530,160 | 534,800 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | This is known as our Lady Chapel.
It's dedicated to Henry VII
who caused it to be built. | 534,800 | 541,800 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The Queen has a stall
in the left corner which she shares
with the dean, but one at a time! | 544,120 | 550,720 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The Queen's standard... | 550,720 | 553,320 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Having searched everywhere else
for James I, | 553,320 | 557,360 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Dean Stanley was left
with only one possibility. | 557,360 | 561,960 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The Lady Chapel was built | 561,960 | 565,000 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | to house the tomb of Henry VII
and his queen, | 565,000 | 569,040 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and to glorify the Tudor dynasty
of which he was the founder. | 569,040 | 574,080 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Dean Stanley obviously thought
that James I wouldn't want, or dare,
to disturb the body of Henry VII, | 574,080 | 582,040 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | so the vault beneath this tomb was
the last place he thought to look. | 582,040 | 587,120 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | But there, of course,
was the body of James I,
snuggling up to Henry VII. | 588,280 | 594,800 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Henry VII and his queen had had
to budge up to make room for him. | 594,800 | 599,840 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | But James I didn't think
he was an intruder. | 599,840 | 603,880 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He founded the Stuart dynasty,
so in his view he belonged
next to the founder of the Tudors. | 603,880 | 610,920 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | It's the best example of the lengths
to which "Who would you like to be | 610,920 | 618,520 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | seen dead with?" can lead. | 610,920 | 618,520 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | It has now been given over to the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath, | 618,520 | 623,840 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | the third oldest order of chivalry
here in our country. | 623,840 | 627,920 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Oh...and here's poor Fred, | 627,920 | 631,840 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | the father of George III. | 631,840 | 634,720 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He was Prince of Wales, but died
before he came to the throne. | 634,720 | 639,680 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | A totally insignificant man, he was
buried without organ or anthem,
scarcely any ceremony at all. | 639,680 | 646,960 |
m001z95w | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | Whom Would You Like to Be Seen Dead With? | 2/3Alan Bennett goes high up into the north transept of Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | "Here lies Fred
who was alive and is dead,
And there's no more to be said." | 646,960 | 653,440 |
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