I've just been watching...

...the newest DVD from Mary's Dowry Productions. It's about St Edmund Campion, and is rather good. A thoughtful and reflective presentation: a narrator telling the story as though by Campion himself, while the drama unfolds with actors in scenes ranging from glorious countryside,an Oxford college, Elizabethan manor houses, and then to the final horror of the Tower...while Campion's cruel imprisonment and death are presented accurately, there is nothing that would be unsuitable for, say, teenage viewing, and the whole message is one of courage and faith. Worth buying for school or parish use: a VI form or Confirmation group would benefit...