V/O: From the birthing bed to the deathbed, life in the Middle Ages was a world of pain – and merely a pathway to Purgatory

Lyric: ‘Devil's gonna get you, oh the Devil's gonna get you, man just as sure as you're born…’

V/O: Dr Helen Castor explores the three greatest rituals in Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage and Death

V/O: Starts Wednesday the 9th of October, on BBC Four