成人快手

For Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch 鈥榗hurchcrawling鈥�, defined by him as the relentless pursuit of churches of all shapes and sizes just for the fun of it, 鈥渓ike a pub crawl, only with churches鈥�, has been a lifelong pursuit. Today the historian takes us to Dunwich, on the Suffolk coast, the place of his favourite childhood expeditions, where he meditates on his delight with ruins throughout his life. Dunwich is perilously near the North Sea and as a boy Diarmaid would inspect the ghost of All Saints, the last medieval parish church at Dunwich. The church has a humble Victorian replacement inland, St James, which is built near a 12th-century ruined fragment from one of Dunwich's medieval hospitals. It鈥檚 also where the very last buttress of All Saints stands, rescued and rebuilt here just before it fell over the cliff. This is, says Dairmaid, 鈥渢hree churches for the price of one, all in a single churchyard: Dunwich is the churchcrawler鈥檚 bargain bucket.鈥�

Produced by Melissa FitzGerald
A Blakeway production for 成人快手 Radio 3