Sunday Feature: God and the Great War

Frank Cottrell Boyce explores the impact of World War I on religious belief and practice on the military front and at home, including the idea that the war may even have been 'good for religion'. He tells the stories of the Young Crescent newsletter which connected a Liverpool church with its boys on the front line, the mushrooming of churches around the Gretna munitions settlement and the Brighton Pavilion hospital, set up to cater for the medical - and religious - needs of India's war-wounded