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Aled Jones visits the magnificent Burghley House near Stamford in Lincolnshire. Often described as the finest Elizabethan house in all of England, Aled discovers how Christianity is woven through Burghley’s 450-year history and explores some of its most spectacular features including the ornately painted hell staircase and heaven room.

From one fine country house to another – ahead of the premiere of the Downton Abbey movie, Aled meets its creator and writer Lord Julian Fellowes. In Brompton Oratory, a chapel where Lord Fellowes often worships, he tells Aled about the film and his Catholic faith.

And back in Lincolnshire, Sean Fletcher marks 45 years since the disaster at the Flixborough chemical plant. He meets survivor John Irvine, who was blinded in the explosion, and finds out how he came to faith in the years that followed.

Music
Now Thank We All Our God – St Martin’s Church, Stamford
Father of Everlasting Grace – Methodist Central Hall,. Westminster
I Vow to Thee My Country – All Saints’ Church, Northampton
Strength Will Rise – St Elisabeth’s Church, Reddish
My Guardian Angel – Elan Catrin Parry
O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go – St Martin’s Church, Stamford
The Day Thou Gavest – St Martin’s Church Stamford