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dot-uK forward slash voucher to claim this offer now. Terms apply. Welcome to Holy Smoke, the Spectator's Religion podcast.

I'm Damian Thompson.

My guest today is Daniel Wilson, a 23-year-old face of great British architecture, a social media project,

celebrating, among other things, the unique, but also unimaginably vast heritage of medieval

churches in England and Wales. Daniel has nearly half a million followers on Instagram,

so there's clearly a lot of interest in his mission to reconnect ordinary people, whether religious or not, with an inheritance

of thousands of churches, many of which can accurately and sadly be described as friendless.

They attract so few worshippers that it's fallen to a charity called

Friends of Friendless churches, which is supported by Daniel Wilson,

to try and rescue them.

And some of the work of rescue is indeed spectacular and heroic even, I think,

and revealing extraordinary things about our past.

Daniel, if I could just ask you, first of all, how you came to frame this mission,

which is across a number of social media platforms, and you work with a number

of different charities, don't you? Yes, that's correct. So, firstly, thank you for having me on.

And I stumbled sort of into this, really. I didn't ever plan to blow up on social media, so to

speak. But yes, when I was still at school, I began

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