St Columba’s features in the recent BBC Two programme Bible Hunters, which examines the astonishing discoveries of biblical manuscripts made by the intrepid nineteenth century sisters Agnes and Margaret Smith, founders and benefactors of St Columba’s, and of Westminster College, Cambridge. In the programme, presenter Dr Jeff Rose reads from the end of Mark’s Gospel from the lectern of St Columba’s.
You can read about the sisters’ connection to Westminster College here.
Janet Soskice’s Sisters of Sinai, a Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2009, tells their extraordinary story.
