🎧 Brexit and the Reformation with Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
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Dan talks to one of the foremost experts on the Reformation and discusses whether Iain Duncan Smith was right to draw parallels between Brexit and the 16th century split with Rome. Producer: Peter Curry
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