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Lent Talks: The Tomb

The Tomb

23/03/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Lent Talks, The Tomb

Dr Julian Litten takes listeners to Kensal Green Cemetery in north-west London.

Dr Julian Litten, author of The English Way of Death: The Common Funeral Since 1450, visits Kensal Green cemetery in north-west London, where he has reserved his last resting place.

Dr Julian Litten is author of "The English Way of Death: The Common Funeral Since 1450". This final "Lent in the Landscape" is from one of Britain's greatest Victorian cemeteries - Kensal Green in north-west London. It contains a host of memorials of the great and good and is still a working cemetery. Dr Litten will take us to the site of his last resting place which he has reserved there. Producer: Phil Pegum. Series Producer: Amanda Hancox.

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