
The most dangerous man
June 10, 2013
The most dangerous man in Tudor England, BBC2 viewers learned last Thursday evening, was the scholar who first penned in English such Biblical phrases as: ‘let there be light’, ‘filthy lucre’, ‘signs of the times’, ‘the meek shall inherit the earth’, ‘sour grapes’, ‘rise and shine’ and many more. Melvyn Bragg’s insightful documentary on William […]