2/3. Ordained in 1971, the Rev Dr Joyce Bennett was the first English woman priest in the Anglican Communion. It would be another 23 years before women would be ordained in the Church of England.
Whilst working as a missionary in Hong Kong she sent home a weekly airmail to her parents for more than 30 years. In between talking about the period in which she became a deacon, she reads excerpts from those letters. Repeated from Sunday