TO BE A PILGRIM

There's no discouragement
shall make him once relent
his first avowed intent
to be a pilgrim...

That said...

You've only got between 5 and 7 days left to catch all three episodes of my radio dramatisation of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress on BBC iPlayer.

Anton Rodgers and Neil Dudgeon head a stellar cast that includes Alec McCowan, Anna Massey, Peter Bowles, Don Warrington and Derek Waring.

You can listen to all three episodes here.

John Bunyan also wrote a well-known hymn on the subject of pilgrimage and, as it doesn't feature in the dramatisation (but is obviously a close relative), here it is together with assorted illustrations from various period editions of his famous book...