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Introduced by Peter Bide News Comment: by Howard Williams
A New Agreed Syllabus for Wales: The Rev. Elfed Davies talks of the syllabus of religious instruction, which is being presented to the Welsh denominational and educational authorities
The English Hymnal Service Book contains Merbecke's setting of the Holy Communion, the Psalms, and Canticles, simply pointed, and all the words of Divine Service in which the congregation joins aloud, as well as more than 300 hymns. This new aid to public worship in the Church of England is reviewed by the Rev. Cyril Taylor
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A series of nine weekly programmes
5: Political Retrospect, A.D. 1555 by G. R. Elton
Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge The years 1517 to 1555 saw not so much the triumph of a new separatist faith as the gradual acceptance of a divided Christendom which no one had wanted. In part, of course, this happened for reasons of religion; but politics were a decisive influence.
Next Wednesday at 7.30: Revolutionary Movements
G. R. Elton has also written a special new historical study of the Reformation to accompany these programmes. It 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]

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