LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Clergy suicide inquest

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

16 Mar 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:04

Description

Ben Brown reports from Oxford on the inquest into the suicide of the Reverend Dr Gareth Bennett, anonymous author of the Crockford’s Clerical Directory preface which attacked the heirarchy of the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie; and on role of the press. Neighbour and friend Harold Cooper speaks on his discovery of the body.

Contributors

Ben Brown; Harold Cooper

Keywords

Suicide; Religion; Press; Robert Runcie; Church of England; Inquests; Gareth Bennett

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