St. Mary's Basilica

This guide to St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków opens with a branding iron pressed into Veit Stoss's cheeks in 1503 Nuremberg, then circles back to the wood carver responsible for the basilica's towering altarpiece, two decades of work in Kraków before he vanished under a cloud of forgery charges. It follows the crime that caught up with him back home, and traces the altarpiece itself through the chaos of the Second World War. Look up at the more than two hundred carved figures while you listen, and picture the crates that once sat hidden in a Kraków cellar.