During a solemn public ceremony in Dublin, the Archbishop. Richard Chevenix Trench , is observed reading a copy of George Eliot 's recently-published Middlemarch carefully concealed in his hat.
This unlikely incident begins Canon John Drury 's consideration of the unorthodox private piety of the novelist outside the official Church and its dogmatism. BBC Manchester
(A dramatisation of Middlemarch starts tomorrow
2.30 Radio 4)