The Body Politic
Five programmes in which
Iwan Russell-Jones looks at attitudes to the body in our culture.
4: The Hungry Heart. The medieval virtue of asceticism is still valued and practised in Mount St Bernard Abbey , near Leicester, by its community of strict Cistercian monks, who rise every morning at
3.15 to begin their day of prayer and work. But are the gym junkies of the nineties ascetics too?