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Lightening the Thunder

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A member of our congregation last night was seen either very drunk or trying to write Hebrew in the frost with his feet.
(from a baroque
Bavarian sermon)
The end of Lent in 17th-century Bavaria was a time for Roman Catholic preachers to let their hair down and regale their flocks with comic stories laced with home truths. Philip Brady , Reader in German at Birkbeck College, finds the humour of 300 years ago surprisingly fresh and full of a worldly wisdom that is valid today.
Sermons read by ALFRED MARKS Producer CARROLL MOORE

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Reader:
Philip Brady
Read By:
Alfred Marks
Producer:
Carroll Moore
Source: Radio Times

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