Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch embarks on a ‘church crawl' around a selection of beautiful parish churches.
In this episode, Diarmaid MacCulloch takes us on a ‘church crawl’ to his local parish church of St Barnabas Jericho in Oxford.
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