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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey.
A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
The two boards were still leant against the wall where they'd been for more than a century.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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Perhaps I could bring you down by the altar.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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A Mirror of England
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Marvell apart, Hull's other poet is Philip Larkin,
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who wrote about an effigy at Chichester, a knight who had withdrawn his hand from his gauntlet
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
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in order to clasp the hand of his wife.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
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That turned out to be sentimental 19th-C restoration.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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But it need not have been.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
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Richard II, who lies here, was so frantic with grief on the death of his first wife, Anne of Bohemia,
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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that he ordered their tomb with them laid side by side with their hands clasped.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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BBC Two
Had a thief not hacked off the hands,
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey.
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Larkin's poem, which was not appropriate at Chichester, would have been appropriate here.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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"What will survive of us is love."
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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Some marriages, though, don't survive the grave.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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Thomas Cecil ordered a triple tomb for himself and his two wives.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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This is wife number one.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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Wife number two married him when she was only a girl,
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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and he was already old and gouty, and pretty disgusting.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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But she stayed married to him for 12 years before he died,
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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and maybe she decided that, dead or alive, she didn't want to sleep with him a moment longer than necessary.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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So when SHE died, aged 83, she made sure she got a tomb to herself in Winchester Cathedral,
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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leaving her place beside him empty.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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CHOIR SINGS: # My soul doth magnify the Lord
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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# And my spirit hath rejoiced
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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# In God my Saviour
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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# For he hath regarded
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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# The lowliness of his handmaiden
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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# For behold, from henceforth... #
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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This probably is
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the most amazing creation of the early 16th century.
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It's a masterpiece of late Gothic art, with King's College Chapel, Cambridge,
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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and St George's Chapel, Windsor.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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But this is structurally amazing.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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Underneath, to reduce the weight when it was dropped into position,
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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you've got this decoration scooped out, to lighten it.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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That structural tension
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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is emphasised by these great bosses
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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which hang down.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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They measure about six feet, 80 feet up in the air.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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Those add an extra half ton of weight,
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which further pulls down, like enormous superimposed weights dangling underneath.
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The weight comes right through the stones on top and tightens up these arches further,
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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so that the whole thing is further tightened.
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It's wonderful that the structure, as you see it, decorated,
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expresses the structural truth.
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An astonishing piece of masonry virtuosity!
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COMMENTARY IN CHINESE
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The monks, when they came, for long nights of prayer, stood like this,
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with their arms on these shelves, if you like to call them.
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And when they got very tired, the seat came down.
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Under the seat are some beautiful wood carvings.
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Here, briefly, was buried Oliver Cromwell.
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Cromwell gets unfairly blamed, not only for the destruction and iconoclasm of the 17th century,
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but of the 16th century too,
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because he shares a surname with Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's secretary
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who presided over the dissolution of the monasteries.
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It's true that Cromwell helped to execute Charles I,
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but, like many revolutionaries, he grew more conservative with age, and treated the Abbey well,
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and chose to be buried here, in a spot reserved for Henry VI.
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Many other regicides were buried here too.
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Come the Restoration, Charles II rooted and booted them all out,
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and had the bodies taken to Tyburn and beheaded.
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They were then thrown in a common pit over by St Margaret's.
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It's a disreputable episode, and many people at the time, including Samuel Pepys, were uneasy about it.
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It's a departure from the consistent magnanimity that normally attaches to burial in the Abbey.
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Once you're here, you stay here.
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The two children here are relations of royal families,
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which is why they're this far up the church.
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This statue is all defaced. No peeking!
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..horses riding to the Abbey...
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, have I got an honest lady who'll own up to being 5'1"?
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I like to end my tour
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with that very famous man who asked
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to be buried in Poets' Corner,
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and not Musical Aisle, and it's the very famous George Frederic Handel,
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who gave us that lovely Messiah, the Hallelujah Chorus, and that lovely...
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..um...thing...sung by Jenny Lind so long after his death, I Know That My Redeemer Liveth.
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ORGAN PLAYS INTRODUCTION
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Evensong in the offing now,
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so the last visitors troop out,
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back to their buses and their hotels in Bayswater,
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and a chance to put their feet up before they go off to Cats, or The Phantom.
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Not quite as long-running as Westminster Abbey, but still...
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
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..all part of the heritage.
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Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey.
A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
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The choir waits by the coffee stall in the cloisters, ready to make their entrance,
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
a nice moment someone wants to capture on film.
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A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
So Frank the verger obliges.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
"This is something we saw them doing in the afternoon.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
"They dress up for a kind of service.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
"Nice they still keep it up!
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
"Lovely colours!"
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A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
ORGAN MUSIC SWELLS
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
SOLO SINGER:
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
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# O Lord, open thou our lips
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
CHOIR RESPONDS:
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
# And the heart
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3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
shall show forth thy praise! #
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
Shown round by one of the clergy before we started these programmes,
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
I saw he bowed to the altar, as I did when a boy and very devout.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
I don't do it now because... it would lay claim to a piety I don't feel.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey.
A Mirror of England
3/3Alan watches the main daily service of Evensong and reflects on his boyhood religion.
BBC Two
But NOT doing it feels wrong, too. It seems to assert an indifferent atheism I don't feel either.
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