41:33 I love when Simon asks the man on the side of the road what he thinks of when he sees the pilgrim carrying a cross all the way to Canterbury. The man simply says, "Christ." Then he greets the pilgrims, says he's Catholic, and asks if they need water or anything. I want to be a pilgrim like the cross-carrying man and walk everywhere with Jesus, and meet His secret friends on the road.

Simon Reeve's programmes are always interesting and insightful, an oasis in a desert of dumbed down television.

American here, posted in England in the early 1980s. What a wonderful program. Respectful and interesting. I miss the BBC and its intelligent programming.

Lovely to watch and listen to at work. : ) I'm fortunate to have been to Canterbury twice, once as a young undergrad, and years later with my then 13-yr old son. It is an experience of a lifetime, especially for Anglophile Americans.

Simon is right, today is the golden age of travel, its become affordable for the many, not just the few.

Thank you for your honesty Simon, for your open mind and for you letting us share your journey. Pilgrimage is never a straight journey, never without doubt. Therefore you are a true pilgrim.

I have just finished reading "The Pillars of the Earth". This documentary really helped some of that content come to life. Thanks for sharing

Such a great travel presenter. Open, friendly, curious, respectful and enthusiastic.

Thank you so much for uploading this series. It is truly wonderful to go the pilgrim way & see the beautiful Churches & feel the Blessing of Faith. Today is the Assumption of Our Beloved Mother Mary. I am not Christian but I respect all Faiths & I feel as if being led to this series is a Blessing in itself as I watch it in India. Palpable Grace bonds Humanity everywhere.

The point where he 'crosses' the road is iconic

"...and how dare anyone take that away from people"

Beautiful medieval architecture, and a wonderful documentary. Thank you.

As an American Teacher of English History I found this one of the Best Programs on this Topic I have ever seen! the BBC and Especially Simon Reeve are to be Congratulated for a Program WORTHY to be Called ENGLISH HISTORY! There is a saying today " Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk!" This is the Living Definition of that Saying! I once wrote an Essay for my Students called " Castles and Cathedrals" a History of Europe in these 2 structures! I can't wait to watch the next Part of this Excellent Documentary! Again Well Done and Thank You from one Historian to Another! God Bless Always Richard M. O'Bryan

Viva Cristo Rey Y Santiago de Compostela!

As a very young man, I visited Canterbury on a rainy and cold day. It was absolutely empty and a woman who had been a teenager during the War was my guide. She was magnificent! I felt comfortable enough with her to get down on my knees and put my hands on the very stones where Beckett's blood had flowed. I looked up at her and asked "on these very stones? " She said yes, and I was so glad to be able to do that. Not so much as a Christian believer, but as a degreed student of history. I plan to return within the next 2 years with so much more knowledge in my head about the place...

How fascinating to be following the actual pilgrimage road to Canterbury from London!

I've watched so many of Simon's programmes since I Discovered him. He's one of the best presenters I have seen and heard.

I love this documentary, it is beautiful and well done. I appreciated hearing your skepticism and lack of faith as a modern man. I guess a word that occurs to me is transcendence. I wish you well.

Thank you. This has inspired me to walk 'The Pilgrim's Way' from London to Canterbury!

Walking is healing ❤

A very enjoyable video, thank you very much indeed. I hope you can upload the rest of this series.

I'm in Oregon, USA. I would love to go along for the Chaucer tour with that guide. I've loved Chaucer ever since I was little

wonderful journey Sir Simon Reeve

Some of my Catholic friends of English descent had a portrait of Thomas Becket in their home when I was a kid.

Beautiful and informative. Thank you for uploading this program.

This is so inspiring. Would love to visit sections of it that would be affordable on my time and budget limits

Superb!

I don't know why those protesters can't just leave the high church Anglicans alone. They're not hurting anyone, nor are they actually worshipping the saints. As an anglo catholic Episcopalian, I may be somewhat bias, but still.

Thanks for sharing this window onto our ancestors and the pilgrim way. Simon Reeves is a great guide. Humble, curious, doubting, seeking. I do wonder, who is holding the camera? Is it a stranger from BBC? A friend you talked into this long series? History of Lincoln Cathedral was an eye opener. Made me want to see and experience God/mystery/transcendence there not just at Lindesfarne and Iona and Canterbury. Two unmet yearnings for the series: 1) A deeper discussion of secularism, faith, and science. Simon just scratched the surface and played into the well worn tropes of Science = Atheism, Science v. Faith, etc. (how is it that 1000’s of scientists in our day and philosophers are people of faith too? Many have been encouraged to faith by their research in physics, cosmology, cellular biology, medicine, and chemistry. 2) a deeper discussion of economic & political factors that led to the flourishing of pilgrimage and also the factors that led Henry VIII to destroy all these places of worship and give the wealth and land to his Courtiers. It’s a stranger story than his 6 wives. How did a Catholic King, crowned by the Pope as “Defender of the Faith” become a ruthless pirate of sacred lands? (It’s not as simple as the divorce he was denied)

Great pilgrimage from Holy Island a week spent at Lindesfarn began a magnificent tour of spiritual awaking again in 1970s.welsh pilgrimage began in the 1970s also almost an overdose of spiritual awaking from time of completing* my degrees a marvellous time walshingham a great place to revisit.Wales another pilgtammage site St David’s Cathedral start of Wales a start from mums home a 1960/70s great days.

@16:50 I do agree that a cathedral at Lincoln is truly remarkable and hope that a building as such is preserved, as it is part of English history.

Belief is power of love but spiritual is the miracle you will witness and living means a gifted to us, if you can see with the third eye ( you know? 😁) thank you 🙏

watching again

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Great vídeo. Congratulations Simon for amazing journey to the Cantebury Cathedral. If someone try to find God only look around the beautiful country, places and Bristish people. After that think about the Earth planet and human beings. From Rio Brazil.

That music at the very start and at the end credits..lovely rousing sound....who wrote it?

Lol, 27:35: "What happens on pilgrimage, stays on pilgrimage..."

quite interested in what's the background music of the opening?

Crossbones Cemetery is a post medieval place. The bishop of Winchester mentioned was Anglican and only the non baptized could not be buried in consecrated ground according to RCs. Anglicans had others rules back in those days perhaps.

Simon is best

Brilliant!!!

I wonder what's the background music 55:33

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Do you know the name of the soundtrack to this program?

I can't believe the pilgrimage to Walsingham would still be so popular without the well-known history of Catherine of Aragon going there to pray for each lost baby. I think she'd be pleased to know that what she would consider to be something good came in part out of all her suffering.

This inspires me to get out of bed and walk around the park outside my back door. Nah!

anybody knows the back ground music from 10:28 ??

nice

Anyone Know The Music At 44:17?

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I think I'm the only one here who used this purely for historical study

Here because of Chaucer.

Absolutely delightful. The next time I am in the UK, I definitely will do some pilgrimaging.

Hello Lindsey , I hope you are doing fine man

Those kids in the procession looking totally glum carrying a banner with the word JOY. Lol

A great-uncle (priest) was burned at the stake at Canterbury. Two others are properly buried inside as RC archbishops. Made my 1st pilgrimage in 1988 - am returning a.s.a.p. 🌷

23:32 that’s my priest!

Alternate title: Modern crusade to the holy land

I could see when they were eating the pike they weren't watching for the Y Bones. They can get stuck going down. Now perch is delicious.

I think that Simon is a very spiritual person, despite what he says to the contrary...or perhaps, in part because of it.

Peace be the journey

What did he find in the mud? 03:25

While I'm against relics on a religious basis, how is it any more macabre to have and honor a supposed part of a saint's remains than to have your granny's ashes on the mantel?

Is he walking the whole thing, or jumping on and off trains and only walking short sections?

Caring a cross is like wearing a bushy white wig because you want to be like Albert Einstein, pure folly! The old monk in charged of the skull relic responds I haven't shout of that!? Ha ha... so much for a contemplative life! The blind leading the naked.

You could tell he changed along the journey. Very interesting coming from a country where pilgrimages are few and far between. I still can't say it's placing faith in the right places but whatever helps someone on their spiritual journey is good, I suppose.

Encouraging your population to "pilgrimage" to your Cathedral was one way to make a fortune for the Bishops.

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I watch all videos with Simon, it might be something more appealing in the videos than content it seems 😂

Yo anybody else here from online classes?

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ahhhhaaaaaaaaaaa. couldn't even get passed the partridge style intro.

If you try, maybe you can squeeze in a few more commercials!!!

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I wish he'd shave more often. He's got a nice face.

me too

Quo Vadis?

can we watch something different

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That chap with the Cross at around 43 mins is a complete and total nutter. Round the bend and half way back. Lock him up before he does some harm.

I don’t believe that you are not a believer. The very fact that you are actually making these pilgrimages yourself, for whatever reason, shows that you are some kind of journey in your own life. If these journeys give you joy and many kinds of wonder you just may be seeking and even perhaps finding what faith is really about. For myself, I believe that when we are at peace with ourselves and in this world, we are at peace with life itself which is God . I wish you peace Simon. ❤

11:45

maybe Jesus DID have a wheel on his cross.

Simon, don`t you realize that everything you do is a quest for God? You deny it, but you're dying to find Him. You'll eventually open your heart to Him and then you'll understand. You're a good person, God bless you.

How sad the discretion wreaked on the world by our huge and overpopulated cities. Truly we have disgraced ourselves.

Pilgrimages are not disappeared by any means. Look at the mobs who go to Mecca for the Haj. Christians regularly go on pilgrimage at Christmas and Easter to the birth, death, and resurrection sites of Christ. BTW, the correct term is "veneration" of saints, not idolatry. Idolatry is false worship rendered to false gods. Worship is rendered to God, alone.

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23:52 ah bore off mate.

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You should don't eat meat on sirtend day as respect to Jesús sucrifise. Fish and eggs are not consider a sucrifise, so we can eat it. That the middle age reason for aptanend for eating meat in sering day.

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I feel like puking, thanks.

oof

i'm bored

Why put an atheist to head up a programme about Faith ? Simon Reeve seems to be flavour of the month at the BBC. Once the BBC choose someone , thats it, we have to put up with them until they die, like David Attenborough. Surely variety is the spice of life. I pay their wages I would like to see new faces.

Searches for god. But then he is everywhere. Man is just so confused. And every prophet borders on epileptic vision. Ah the frontal lobe and then heaven.

Nothing to do with Canterbury

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