
Art historian Alixe Bovey follows the Gough Map, the oldest surviving road map of Britain, in search of the country as it was in the medieval era.
Air Date: 2008-10-04
Dr Alixe Bovey journeys north beginning at York, stopping off at the medieval street, 'Shambles', which was used main...
Air Date: 2008-10-11
Dr Alixe Bovey heads west from Gloucester to Wales following in the footsteps of the armies of English King Edward I ...
Air Date: 2008-10-18
Dr Alixe Bovey begins her journey on the east coast of Kent, in particular the then important international trading p...
Air Date: 2008-10-25
Alixe Bovey visits Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, Lincoln Cathedral in Lincolnshire, and discovers some ancient la...
Air Date: 2008-11-01
Dr Alixe Bovey begins her journey on the East coast of Scotland with a visit to an abandoned monastery on the Isle of...
Air Date: 2008-11-08
Winchester cathedral was the birthplace of monastical polyphony music, a musical variation of the monotonous 'plainso...