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All Saints, Shelley

Episode 10 of 12

Stories of people fighting to preserve British churches. Can DNA be retrieved from a body in All Saints, Shelley to help identify a founding father of the USA?

A tiny church in Suffolk may hold the solution to a mystery that could change the way we view the history of America. Buried in All Saints, Shelley, is the body of the sister of Bartholomew Gosnold, the man many now credit with the founding of modern America. Can precious DNA be retrieved from the body in the church to identify her forgotten brother?

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