Episode 3 | The Monastery
Final part of the documentary series following five men searching for meaning in their lives who have accepted a challenge from the Benedictine monks of Worth Abbey to live according to the monks' rules for 40 days and nights.
Tweet- Clip length: 59'19''
- Broadcast year: 2005
- Religious Education | Christianity | Practices | Worship
Licence: ERA Licence required
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
- Provider: BBC
- Channel: BBC Two
- Programme: The Monastery
- Series: 1
- Episode: 3
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Episode 3 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Dr Janina Ramirez discovers how the immensely rich and powerful monasteries that had dominated British society for 1,000 years were annihilated in less than five years.
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Episode 2 | Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Janina Ramirez looks at how monasteries transformed society and rose to a position of immense power, only for sin and corruption to lead to collapse as the medieval period ended.