The Crossway (Omnibus)

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The Crossway by Guy Stagg (Omnibus)

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The Crossway

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Crossway by Guy Stagg (Omnibus)

A young man makes a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury - and then keeps walking. 

A year after a nervous breakdown, Guy Stagg walked to Canterbury then kept going - on to Jerusalem. Read by Jonathan Bailey.

An epic journey, but also an intimate one. 

After several years of mental illness, Guy Stagg set off one morning, from London, to walk to Canterbury. Ill-prepared and not entirely clear why he was doing this, he nevertheless got there. Exhausted, he lay beneath the Cathedral walls and then decided to continue. 

A few months later, on New Year’s Day, 2013, he set out from Canterbury to follow the paths of the medieval pilgrims to Jerusalem.

Ten months and 5,500 kilometres later, he arrived.

This is the story of his walk. Danger and physical hardship lay in his path but he was also haunted by the memories that he sought to flee and ambushed by echoes of his breakdown. 

In this Omnibus of five extracts from Guy’s account, follow some of his experiences through snow and storm across the Alps, among other pilgrims in Italy, despairing and alone in Greece, and finally to the incessant rounds of competing worship in Jerusalem.

It's a journey through the pathways of faith and recovery towards healing and understanding. 

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed.

Read by Jonathan Bailey

Producer: Jill Waters

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in  June 2018.

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