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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
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the sanction of history - the monks
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charged pilgrims in the 15th century.
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Besides, the Church of England gives the Abbey no income.
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Italian? Espanol. Espanol?
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Thank you.
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..Founded the Metropolitan police force.
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They were nicknamed the peelers, after his surname. We sometimes refer to policemen as bobbies.
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It's from his name, Robert. The next chap is William Gladstone.
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He was prime minister four times last century. Every Tuesday our prime minister meets with the Queen.
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The same thing happened last century. He wasn't very good at dealing with the ladies.
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Some of us have that problem. I do, I'm afraid.
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When Gladstone went to see the Queen, he couldn't sit down, he was so nervous.
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I'll break off. Every hour, on the hour, we say a prayer. This is a house of God, not simply a museum.
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That's going to happen now.
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Every day at this hour, we ask all our visitors to join with us in one minute of silence and prayer.
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Une minute de silence et de recueillement, s'il vous plait.
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Bitte, eine Minute Stille und Gebet.
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I ask you, therefore, to be still, sitting or standing as you prefer,
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while we remember God to whose glory this great church was built.
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Let us remember also those less fortunate than ourselves.
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We pray for this great abbey, for all who work in it and serve it,
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not only as a tourist attraction, but as a place of worship, prayer and pastoral care.
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SOFT ORGAN MUSIC
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The English have always been cliquey,
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part of their charm,
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or their lack of it.
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The burial and memorial customs of the Abbey contrive to make them as cliquey in death as they are in life,
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the most obvious clique being the writers and poets gathered in Poets' Corner.
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But all over the Abbey are similar groupings, little knots of the like-minded.
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Architects in one corner, scientists in another.
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Engineers, musicians. Even Sir John Franklin, the polar explorer, found someone similar to keep him warm.
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It's the English liking for clubs.
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Of course, it means when the Last Trump sounds and the dead clamber out of their graves,
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there'll be no awkward standing about like there is at a party.
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Henry III can enjoy a joke with Charles II.
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Darwin can bring Newton up to date on the latest developments.
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It'll all be very relaxed.
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Of course, a lot of them will be talking shop. That's the English idea of heaven, anyway.
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GUIDE SPEAKS IN SPANISH
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Together with the coronation chair and the tomb of the Unknown Warrior,
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Poets' Corner is the most famous feature of the Abbey.
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Once, it would be the first glimpse you'd get of the interior. In the 19th century, visitors entered here.
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It was this door which, in 1820, the wretched and rejected, drunken and unwashed Queen Caroline
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was refused admission to the
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coronation of her husband, George IV.
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The first poet to be buried here was honoured, not because he was a poet, but because he was a civil servant.
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This was Chaucer, who'd been in the household of John of Gaunt and Richard II.
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The original tomb of the author of the Canterbury Tales was behind the postcard counter.
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In 1556, his bones were put in this splendid tomb,
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which was probably looted from one of the monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII.
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GUIDE SPEAKS IN SPANISH
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I've got mixed feelings about Poets' Corner.
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It's associated in my mind with Christopher Robin and the changing of the guard,
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Peter Pan, even pearly kings and a 'gorblimey, strike-a-light', tourist board notion of England.
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It's English literature safe and cosified.
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Over here we've got more famous names.
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The famous Charles Dickens, buried here on the instructions of Queen Victoria.
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Rudyard Kipling - Jungle Book. Thomas Hardy, another great name.
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The English prefer their poets dead and respectable.
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So many of the writers buried or remembered here are safer in death than they ever were in life.
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Shelley, an atheist, would be shocked to find himself here. Keats, too.
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Harold Nicholson got their monument put up. He was nervous lest it look like a sausage, which it does a bit.
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Auden, like Shelley, might find himself a bit uneasy about being here.
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He left England because it was too cosy, went to live in America.
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Now here he is, commemorated in the Abbey's cosiest corner.
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And here are the First War poets.
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And a pretty odd bunch they are!
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It's only because they're dead that you can include on the same stone
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Julian Grenfell, who thought war was a great big adventure,
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and Wilfrid Owen, who was...
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..well, more pessimistic.
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And THIS is Wordsworth, who's actually buried in Grasmere,
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and is rather less "lonely as a cloud" in Poets' Corner, and in rather odd company.
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Joshua Ward, who invented friar's balsam.
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The botanist, Stephen Hales, who dreamed up the ventilator.
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Oh... And he's lost his pen.
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It's a small act of vandalism,
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and it's comforting to think it was probably done in the 19th century.
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But this place has always had its share of prying, prising fingers.
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Tomb robbers we associate with ancient Egypt,
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except that here, in our own Valley of the Kings,
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there's been a process of patient and persistent larceny that has been going on since the Abbey was built.
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A finger broken off here, a precious stone dug out there,
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pilgrims who come to see the relics and take away a relic with them.
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These days, the worst vandals are acknowledged to be French schoolchildren,
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tadpoles, as the vergers call them.
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French children seem to long to make their mark,
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generally on one of our national monuments!
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A beautiful feature of the south transept, which houses Poets' Corner, are these 13th-century paintings
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which were discovered during preparations for the coronation of Edward VIII
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which turned into that of George VI.
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This is the incredulity of Saint Thomas, putting his hand into the side of Christ.
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Writers deal in doubts rather than certainties. It's a nice accident
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that this picture of the most famous doubter should be the background to so many memorials of literary life.
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On two mornings a week, the choristers entertain visitors in the nave with what they call "The Sing".
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This morning, it's "Litany to the Holy Spirit" by Peter Hurford.
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BOYS' VOICES RING OUT
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# ..When temptations me oppress
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# And when I my sins confess
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# Sweet Spirit, comfort me
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