Beyond the Tunnel of History by Jacques Darras. 5: Toward the Light
'J see Europe poised on the brink of a spiritual and intellectual development that will gather together the scattered embers of its past.'
In 1802,
William Wordsworth stood on the beach at Calais and met for the first time his French daughter Caroline. Father and child provided a poignant symbol of the ambivalence between
France and England. But Jacques Darras finds a clue to our shared European future in a much earlier cross-
Channel cultural interaction: the 'School of Light' established by Irish monks in the medieval city of Laon. Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN