In March, Lord Melvyn Bragg (pictured) spoke to a large audience in Carlisle Cathedral as part of its 900th anniversary celebrations.
Having encountered this writer and broadcaster – a Cumbrian lad like myself – many years ago through reading For want of a Nail (1965) and other locally-set novels, I was fascinated to know that Bragg was now to speak on the Reformer and Bible translator, William Tyndale. It was a theme far removed from his interests in earlier works.
With Bragg’s knowledge of Reformation history and his oratorical gifts, I was certainly not disappointed.
