Series
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Nights in the Nave: A Champing Podcast
1 season
Step into the world of "Champing" - camping overnight in historic churches cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. Join host Victoria Jenner as she invites a new guest to join her for a night in a different church each week.
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Cornwall's Maritime Churches
1 season
Cornwall, located in the far west of Great Britain on a peninsula tumbling into the vast Atlantic Ocean, bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the Channel, and to the east by the River Tamar.
Victoria Jenner, a historian of decorative art and architecture, uses diffe...
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Medieval Death: Exploring Cadaver Tombs
1 season
Follow Dr Christina Welch as she explores a unique form of medieval funerary monument, the Cadaver or Transi Tomb. These are stone or sometimes wooden figures in churches and cathedrals carved between four and five hundred years ago that typically show an extraordinary thin person, dead, or neari...
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The English Organ
1 season
As a title, The English Organ is unassuming. However, as we’ll discover, well-tailored restraint is one of the hallmarks of the English organ and its music. But there is nothing restrained about this series that sets out both to show and celebrate the arc and development of the English organ and ...
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Churchcrawls in Solitude
1 season
In September 2020 the Oxford University Professor of History, Diarmaid MacCulloch, sought sanctuary in his lifelong hobby ‘churchcrawling’. Over the course of this series, you’ll be taken on a journey around some of England’s beautiful and historic churches. Enjoy exploring the beauty of these sp...