A talk at...

...the CTS bookshop in Westminster Cathedral piazza. They have organised a series of lunchtime talks, timed for 1.05pm, when people come out of the  Cathedral's 12.30pm Mass.

My talk was on "London's Catholic History"  so we swept through the Romans, Saxons, Normans, Middle Ages, Tudors, and onwards...with the river as a sort of theme, the Romans building a fort at Londinium, and much much later our last Saxon king, Edward, building a Minster to the West of London, giving that area a name that echoes around the world...

There's a pace to these lunchtime talks - quite different from the more leisurely feel of people settling down for an evening gathering. We aren't even sitting down - we all just crowd into the bookshop and take it from there. But this gives a slightly "edgy" feel to the whole thing, and I think it all works.

Note: Wednesdays, after the 12.30pm Mass. I'm back on Oct 21st, with colleague Clare Anderson, talking about St John Paul the Great.   BTW, if you want to see the special TV feature on him, watch EWTN on his feast-day, Oct 22nd...