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Hi, Hugh Dennis here, and a quick interruption from me to tell you about the 2020 BBC Radio

4 Christmas appeal with St Martin in the fields.

For people experiencing homelessness, it's a long journey to find home, but this Christmas,

you can help someone who feels lost to find their way again.

This year St Martin's has supported hundreds of rough sleepers in London and awarded over

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in every part of the UK.

Your gift could give someone the key to home this Christmas.

Please support the BBC Radio 4 Christmas appeal with St Martin in the fields by donating

online on the Radio 4 website.

And whether you're a long-standing donor or this is your first year, thank you.

It took us ideas out across Britain, wherever there was an appetite for Christian revival,

preaching in the open air, especially in the new industrial areas.

Other spread methods and tools such as George Whitfield and the sheer energy of the movement

led to splits within it, but it soon became a major force for change.

With me to discuss John Wesley in Methodism, our Stephen Plant, Dean and Ron C. Fellow

at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge, Erin White, Rita in Early Modern Hill,

History and Averist with University, and William Gibson, Professor Evie Clasiasical

History at Oxford Books University, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and

Church History.

William Gibson, can you tell us about his early life, John Wesley?

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