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Sunday Feature: Smashing The Idols

Series 1, episode 0

Writer Andrew Brown explores the controversial cultural and theological legacy of Calvinism. Perhaps nobody has ever looked at death, hell, human nature and God quite so uncompromisingly as the lawyer born in Noyon 500 years ago, who gave his name to one of the fiercest and most influential forms of Protestantism. Moving from Geneva to Scotland, and talking to historians Diarmaid MacCulloch and Bill Naphy and novelists Marilynne Robinson and James Robertson, Andrew explores the sometimes unexpected legacies of this extraordinarily polarising system of belief. With works by Calvin read by John Sessions and music by Cappella Nova