S9E7 The man who wouldn’t play Henry VIII’s game

William Tyndale looms so large over the early English Reformation that it's easy to mistake him for a typical figure of the movement. In fact, he was one of its most distinctive and uncompromising voices. In this episode, Dr Tony Watkins, our Fellow for Public Engagement, speaks with Alec Ryrie, Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University. They explore the world that shaped Tyndale, the risks he ran to put the New Testament into English, and why his refusal to bow to Henry V...