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Religious howlers

Sir: With reference to Eric Brown (Letters, 17 May), verbal anachronisms are not the only plague in Foyle’s War. Its religious howlers are worse. In a recent episode, the murderer was a fake German refugee priest, shown (impossibly) conducting choir practice before the Blessed Sacrament exposed in a monstrance. His devout young Catholic victim was called a ‘Bible before bedtime’ type and ‘a Bible basher’, terms only applied to Protestants. The ‘priest’, though an alien, was improbably running a busy parish on his own, then in any case rare and, even more improbably for the time, was part of an ecumenical group of Anglican peaceniks.

The programme makers blamed this all on their props department.

Sheridan Gilley

Western Hill, Durham

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