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Sunday Schools: Reading, Writing and Redemption

Documentary investigating the radical impact Sunday schools have had on British society. Huw Edwards discovers their forgotten history.

Documentary investigating the radical impact Sunday schools have had on British society. Their early pioneers upset local bigwigs and the state by teaching the lower orders to read. By Victorian times, huge numbers attended the schools and they even gave birth to major football clubs. In the twentieth century they still had a rich influence on the personal lives of people like Patricia Routledge, Roy Hattersley and Anne Widdecombe. Huw Edwards discovers their forgotten history.

1 hour

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Sun 18 Oct 2009 00:10

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Presenter Huw Edwards

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