Monday 20 June 2011

Wyclif and The Lollards on Radio 4

This week, Melvyn Bragg tackles the topic of Wyclif and the Lollards on Radio 4's 'In our Time'...

To listen in via iPlayer - click here.

John Wyclif - one of the most important thinkers of the Middle Ages - was the medieval philosopher and theologian who in the fourteenth century instigated the first complete English translation of the Bible.

Bragg is joined in his ruminations by programme regulars Sir Anthony Kenny (Philosopher and former Master of Balliol College, Oxford), Anne Hudson (Emeritus Professor of Medieval English at the University of Oxford) and Rob Lutton (Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Nottingham).

To access Bragg's earlier programme on Fox's Book of Martyrs (featuring Diarmaid MacCulloch, Justin Champion and Elizabeth Evenden) click here.

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