Thomas Becket

We shine the spoltight on the figure of Thomas -a-Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, born in London, 1118 and stabbed to death in his cathedral on December 29th, 1170.
The famous quarrel between Thomas and the king, Henry II...provoked the murder and made the martyr. A programme written by Jill Bevilacqua and produced by Sean Patrick Lovett.

"...On a dark December afternoon four knights of the court of Henry II rode into Canterbury in search of the Archbishop Thomas Becket, they left him dead in the blackness o f his own cathedral..."

"Henry was shattered by Thomas's death, he swore on the gospels he had not desired it , he made an oath of perpetual obedience to Rome..."