Mark Barrett, a Benedictine monk at Worth Abbey, opens up the life of a 21st century monk in the hope that ‘the reader would find that we monastics – so often the shadowy medieval figures of media-gothic – are in reality fellow-seekers, apprentices training among the tools of a spiritual workshop’. He explores the spiritual journey made each day in the cycle of the ancient monastic offices, from Vigils before dawn to the night office of Compline. Recorded Nov 2013.