It’s here! After being put on the back burner while I went to Norwich! Bit longer than usual because there are four sites I wanted to compare. I’m quite pleased with how the Furness reconstruction effects came out.

In this episode around Morecambe Bay, I visit the (probably) Anglo-Saxon monastic cell at Heysham, the great Cistercian Abbey of Furness, the middle-rank Augustinian priory at Cartmel and the almost totally demolished Cockersand Abbey; explaining the daily life of a monk via the universal medium of 8-bit graphics! (remember the ’80s!?! etc.)

Obviously all shot on the same day in the order presented because I have the SAME SHIRT ON!!!

Music is Mass for Four Voices by William Byrd, performed by Ensemble Morales, licenced under CC 3.0.
https://imslp.org/wiki/Mass_for_4_Voices_(Byrd%2C_William)
I feel I obliged to say no English medieval monastery could ever have sung Byrd (since he was almost certainly born just after the Dissolution), but then they’d never have heard Vaughan Williams either, and nobody complained when I used that.

THE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE FANTASTIC.