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John Milton: Puritan, Polymath and Poet   Read Transcript

19/10/2008
Four hundred years ago, John Milton was born in Cheapside in London and became one of the greatest poets in post-Shakespearean England. He was a champion of the parliamentary movement, a Puritan who was married to a Catholic, and the poet whose 12 volume epic poem, Paradise Lost, shows a subtle understanding of Adam and Eve according to independent Milton scholar, Charlotte Clutterbuck.

The Golden Girls   Read Transcript

20/01/2008
In the 1940s, Marjorie Wilkinson and Ethel Helyar brought medical and spiritual support to the Australian outback through the pioneering Methodist Nursing Services.