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m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He's a very important dean,
because he's answerable
to one person, the Queen. | 1,014,960 | 1,021,000 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | But this being a royal peculiar
church, it's entirely self-funding. | 1,021,000 | 1,027,520 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | We rely very much
on yourselves coming here | 1,027,520 | 1,031,560 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | because it costs around £4 million
to run Westminster Abbey per year. | 1,031,560 | 1,037,320 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | We don't receive any State aid
or any aid from the Church. | 1,037,320 | 1,042,040 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | GUIDE SPEAKS IN JAPANESE | 1,042,040 | 1,046,520 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | One needs to remember
that, like Venice, the Abbey has
always been a venue for tourists. | 1,046,520 | 1,053,520 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | In its earliest days, pilgrims came
to look at the Confessor's shrine. | 1,053,520 | 1,058,520 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | And pilgrims are, after all,
simply tourists on their knees. | 1,058,520 | 1,063,240 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | We'd run out of space, literally.
3,000 people are buried here. | 1,063,240 | 1,068,760 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | There are 400 monuments in here,
too. We bury our kings and queens
at Windsor now. | 1,068,760 | 1,075,840 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | We've had
a number of royal weddings here. | 1,075,840 | 1,080,040 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The Queen married here.
She's still with Prince Philip! | 1,080,040 | 1,084,520 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Just a brief history
of the church... | 1,084,520 | 1,088,240 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | There's been a church on this site
since the 7th century. | 1,088,240 | 1,092,640 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | That's it, folks. Round there. Yes. | 1,092,640 | 1,094,400 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Like a shoal of fish! | 1,096,320 | 1,098,640 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | ..They don't bury people here any
more. All they do is inter ashes. | 1,098,640 | 1,104,680 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Laurence Olivier's were the last
ashes, I think, to be interred here. | 1,104,680 | 1,109,760 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Are we all met? | 1,109,760 | 1,112,080 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Just about. | 1,112,080 | 1,114,320 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | I've brought you into the nave of
a church whose history goes back to
the early part of the 7th century. | 1,115,320 | 1,123,760 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The first church
of any importance here | 1,123,760 | 1,127,800 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | was under a king of England when we | 1,127,800 | 1,135,200 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | had seven kings and seven kingdoms, | 1,127,800 | 1,135,200 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | King Arthur, in 785. | 1,127,800 | 1,135,200 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The first TRULY important church
was after the last Anglo-Saxon king. | 1,135,200 | 1,140,600 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Anglo-Saxon is what we were before
the Battle of Hastings and the
invasion of William of Normandy. | 1,140,600 | 1,148,440 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | That king was Edward the Confessor. | 1,148,440 | 1,153,360 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He was a very pious man. | 1,148,440 | 1,153,360 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | As a royal burial place,
Westminster is unique. | 1,153,360 | 1,158,880 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The only comparable spot
is the Abbey of St Denis in Paris
where the French kings are buried. | 1,158,880 | 1,165,920 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The French Revolution
put paid to that. 50 royal tombs
broken up in as many hours. | 1,165,920 | 1,171,960 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Two days to destroy
the work of 12 centuries.
Nothing comparable happened here. | 1,171,960 | 1,178,000 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | When Henry VIII's commissioners
stripped the monasteries of their
assets, Westminster survived... | 1,178,000 | 1,185,320 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | preserved because so many
royal dead lie round. | 1,185,320 | 1,189,440 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The most remarkable survival
is the shrine itself. | 1,204,000 | 1,208,720 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | And in it, just about here,
the body of Edward the Confessor - | 1,210,880 | 1,217,440 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | saint, founder of the Abbey,
the last of the Saxon kings -
who died in 1066. | 1,217,440 | 1,223,560 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Other shrines were not so lucky.
Henry VIII destroyed
virtually all of them, | 1,223,560 | 1,229,600 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | including St Cuthbert's at Durham,
where he chucked out the body, | 1,229,600 | 1,234,440 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | St Albans, and the richest shrine
of all - that of Thomas a Becket
at Canterbury. | 1,234,440 | 1,240,600 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | But NOT Edward the Confessor. Here,
though robbed of all its finery, | 1,240,600 | 1,246,400 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | is his battered stone box still. | 1,246,400 | 1,249,040 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Now, why? Well, not because
he was a saint, obviously. | 1,250,120 | 1,254,480 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | No, it was because he was a king,
and Henry was a king,
and there's a trade union of kings. | 1,254,480 | 1,261,720 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Injure one, you injure them all. | 1,261,720 | 1,264,160 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Saint or sinner,
Catholic or Protestant,
kings and queens stick together. | 1,264,160 | 1,271,040 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | So when, with the death of the young
Edward VI and the accession of Mary, | 1,274,480 | 1,279,360 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Catholicism was briefly
re-established, | 1,279,360 | 1,283,400 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | the shrine, minus most of its
accoutrements, was rebuilt. | 1,283,400 | 1,288,080 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The lower part still as Henry III
had built it in the 1260s, | 1,288,080 | 1,293,560 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | the upper part dating
from Mary's time, 300 years later. | 1,293,560 | 1,298,560 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Here in these niches hollowed out
by 500 years of knees,
pilgrims would pray | 1,300,560 | 1,307,960 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and touch the stone, some even lying
here all through the night. | 1,307,960 | 1,312,760 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | To most Anglicans the idea
of a shrine is strange and exotic. | 1,314,000 | 1,318,720 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | And there is something not altogether | 1,318,720 | 1,323,360 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | English about it even now. | 1,318,720 | 1,323,360 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The upper stage looks somehow Greek,
or like an elaborate doll's house. | 1,323,360 | 1,329,080 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | And right until the end
of the 18th century, a strange,
almost unbelievable fact, | 1,329,080 | 1,335,920 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | the area round the shrine
was swept daily | 1,335,920 | 1,339,960 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and the sweepings sent, with
whatever sacred dust they contained,
to Catholic Spain and Portugal. | 1,339,960 | 1,347,280 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | We pass to the north aisle. | 1,356,440 | 1,358,800 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | "Ahead of you..." Wait a minute. | 1,358,800 | 1,365,080 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | This way is north. | 1,358,800 | 1,365,080 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | We're headed east. | 1,358,800 | 1,365,080 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | But this used to be
the royal burial place. | 1,366,080 | 1,370,360 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Over 2,000 people are buried in
this church. They're like sardines. | 1,370,360 | 1,375,600 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Don't look so worried!
I'm not going to tell you
about all of them. | 1,375,600 | 1,381,560 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | We have to go back to the year 600
when a church was first built
on this site. | 1,381,560 | 1,388,360 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | There were no other buildings
around here whatsoever... | 1,388,360 | 1,393,800 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Space, or prime space
near the altar or the shrine,
has always been at a premium. | 1,393,800 | 1,400,040 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | And there's something of an old
garden about it sometimes, | 1,400,040 | 1,404,720 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | nobody keeping an accurate record
of who's been planted where. | 1,404,720 | 1,409,520 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | So, quite often, someone has been
dug up or had to be relocated. | 1,409,520 | 1,414,280 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | There's no plan or pattern
to burial in the Abbey. | 1,414,280 | 1,419,080 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | You elbowed your way in
where you could, | 1,419,080 | 1,423,120 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | and some of the side chapels
are a bit of a jumble,
rather like a left-luggage office, | 1,423,120 | 1,430,160 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | tombs shoved in like trunks, waiting
to be redeemed at the Resurrection. | 1,430,160 | 1,435,000 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Space was always limited.
Even when you bagged a place, you
weren't sure of hanging on to it! | 1,437,400 | 1,444,640 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | In this tomb are some of the
children of Henry III and Edward I. | 1,444,640 | 1,449,160 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | They were nicely tucked up
in a spot in the shrine and then
found themselves booted down here | 1,449,160 | 1,456,160 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | because Richard II fancied the same
spot for the tomb of his wife. | 1,456,160 | 1,460,960 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | "Sorry, change of plan.
I'm putting you in the spare room." | 1,460,960 | 1,465,760 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | ..So, naturally the pope wouldn't
have it. The king was annoyed
and divorced himself from the pope. | 1,466,760 | 1,475,320 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He made himself
the head of the Church of England. | 1,475,320 | 1,479,760 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He could do anything he liked.
He did! He divorced Catherine
and married Anne Boleyn. | 1,479,760 | 1,488,040 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The Queen appoints the dean
and the chapter to this church,
who only answer to her. | 1,488,040 | 1,494,640 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | The Dean of Westminster
is a very powerful man. | 1,494,640 | 1,498,920 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | He only answers
to the Queen and the Almighty,
and don't ask me in what order! | 1,498,920 | 1,506,800 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | I've had a letter from a Roman
Catholic church in Zimbabwe,
Saint Edward the Confessor's. | 1,506,800 | 1,514,640 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | They've written,
because their church
is falling down, wanting money. | 1,514,640 | 1,521,280 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | You can see in these pictures
that there are quite bad cracks
in the church...here and here. | 1,521,280 | 1,529,240 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | And there it's very clear. | 1,530,720 | 1,533,080 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | They obviously are worried. It's
something to do with land erosion. | 1,533,080 | 1,539,560 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | It has happened rather fast. So, I
think we might want to support them. | 1,539,560 | 1,545,040 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | We need to get 400 pound coins. | 1,551,400 | 1,554,800 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | Good morning. ..Thank you. | 1,556,480 | 1,559,440 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | I don't like churches charging
or even shaming visitors into making
supposedly voluntary offerings. | 1,560,480 | 1,567,800 |
m001z1vg | m001z7gr | The Abbey with Alan Bennett | Alan Bennett presents a personal behind-the-scenes tour of Westminster Abbey. | The Royal Peculiar | 1/3Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey. | BBC Two | At least at Westminster it has | 1,567,800 | 1,576,160 |
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