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The World's Debate: 2: The Promised Land

on BBC Radio 4 FM

The story of the Crusades as told in the words of those who lived through them by John Scotney
'We who were Westerners have found ourselves transformed into inhabitants of the East. We have already forgotten our native land.'
The capture of Jerusalem 1099, the foundation of the Crusader Kingdoms, the mingling of Christian and Moslem cultures and the beginning of the Knights Templar and Hospitallers.
Music by PHILIP PICKETT and the NEW LONDON CONSORT with plainchant by CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS and DAVID AND ANTHONY BEVAN

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Music By:
Philip Pickett
Unknown:
Christopher Francis
Unknown:
Anthony Bevan
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
William of Tyre:
Cyril Cusack
Ousama:
Garard Green
St Bernard:
Hugh Dickson
Ibn Al-Athir:
Sam Dastor
Ibn Jubair:
Roshan Seth
Rabbi Eliezer:
Cyril Shaps
James of Vitry:
Timothy Bateson
Anonymous chronicler:
Michael Robbins
Fulcher of Chartres:
Michael Pennington
Raymond of Agiles:
Michael Drew
Anna Comnena:
June Barrie
Godfrey of Bouillon:
Christian Rodska

BBC Radio 4 FM

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