A series of nine programmes presenting the religious movements against the political, economic, and social background of their time, and discussing their continued relevance today.
4: The Counter Reformation by H. 0. Evennett
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
The Catholic revival from 1540 onwards was, quite as much as its Protestant rivals, a movement of religious enthusiasm--one of the most powerful of the age. with readings by Gary Watson
Next Wednesday at 7.30: A Political Retrospect
A new historical study of the Reformation, specialty written by G. R. Elton to accompany these programmes, is published by the BBC as a 48-page booklet. with two maps, a library list, and many illustrations. It can be obtained from newsagents and booksellers, price 5s., or direct by sending a crossed postal order to [address removed]