Had you had much experience of the Church of England before working on Rev?
Only as a child. My parents were good friends with our parish priest in Old Marston, Oxford. I think there’s an archbishop of York in the 19th century on my mother’s side – who were moderately churchy. My father was ethnically Jewish but his family converted to Catholicism.
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