Hello and welcome this is the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me

Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who are there this week the murder of a

Brazilian journalist at the hands of the 1970s military dictatorship.

I didn't see my father leaving.

I only heard about him again on the following day.

When my mother woke up, me and my brother told us that our father had died.

Also, we remember the naked ape, the book which argued that we are all really just animals.

It was published 50 years ago. Plus fighting for freedom of speech on

the internet. The law students at first thought this was just about the coolest

assignment they had ever been given in their lives, but within about an hour they discovered that in trying to find

that you end up having to look at a lot of really disgusting stuff.

That's all to come but we begin with a question of faith. One of the curious aspects of the major religions of the world

is that pretty much all of them have suffered splits and schisms. There are differing

often rival branches of Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, even Buddhism.

And that's true of course of Christianity.

For Christians there is the split between Orthodox churches and between the Catholics and Protestants. That last division can be traced back

500 years to the moment when a German monk Martin Luther posted his criticism of the Catholic

hierarchy on the door of All Saints Church in

Wittenburg. The date was the 31st of October 1517. What Martin Luther

started was nothing short of a religious revolution.

The document was ostensibly about the church's practice of selling indulgences.

But Luther's protest would grow into the Protestant Reformation.

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