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The Untold: The Prayer Wall

The Prayer Wall

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Richard Gamble's mission to build a huge national landmark, dedicated to Christian prayer.

For 18 years, Richard Gamble has pursued a dream - to build a huge national landmark, made from a million bricks and dedicated to Christian prayer. Will his hopes be realised?

Richard Gamble believes God has given him a mission: to build a huge national monument, made from a million bricks, each representing an answered Christian prayer. 

It seems an impossible task for a sports chaplain who has no experience of construction. And yet over the past eight years, he's managed to pull together a project team, raise thousands of pounds and launch a global design competition with the Royal Institute of British  Architects (RIBA).

But before a single brick can be laid, they need to secure a site to lay it. Richard hopes lie in the Edmistons - a family multimillionaires and evangelical Christians, who own extensive land in the West Midlands.

Will his hopes be realised? Will he find a home for the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer?

Producer: Becca Bryers

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