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The Ambridge Socialist

15th May

In this week’s Radio Times the Bishop of Ripon Helen-Ann Hartley has written a piece arguing that one reason why the absence of BBC updates from Ambridge are missed (return 25th May)is that we dont yet know whether Shula has been accepted as a priest.

The Bishop makes the point that the Archers does God and spirituality well. She does admit though to being a recent, er, convert, to listening to life in Ambridge and so may not have come across the rather robust views that Professor Jim Lloyd sometimes expresses on religion.

The Ambridge Socialist Editorial Board probably has a majority of atheists on it but of course we would always defend people’s right to have religious faith and practice it where appropriate.

That does not unfortunately take away from the fact that Saint Shula is very boring. Nor does it excuse the BBC’s long term failure to focus on the Grundy’s Methodist ideas, when they have them