Bettany Hughes returns to those crucial early years of Christianity where she finds evidence about the role of women that contradicts centuries of Christian teaching and challenges the belief that women should not be priests.

Hughes talks with Professor Kate Cooper about how the latest research is showing just how crucial wealthy Roman women were to the spread of Christianity in the first few centuries. When asked whether Christianity would have survived without women, Professor Cooper makes a surprising and thought-provoking claim.

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