The new BBC adaptation of 'Wolf Hall' is fantastic. Everybody needs to check it out if they like subtle and serious drama. Plus the natural candlelight photography reminds me of Kubrick's Barry Lyndon which is a good sign. But anyway why I'm posting this here...
The dramatisation of how the publication of William Tyndale's English translation of the Bible effects life is fascinating. One day The Bible is this mysterious thing that Priests read to you in an ancient dead language, only delivering the parts they want you to hear. And the next day you have a copy you can read, keep at home (Albeit in secret on pain of death) and interpret yourself. It's really electric drama.
A couple of points stood out for me, when a man says it's like being "Drunk on the word of God" and another where a man courageously stands up, visibly shaking and reads allowed from Genesis (I think it was) in English before his congregation (He is burned alive soon after).
Like I said, it's fascinating stuff.