It’s rather intimidating to interview someone who is a master of the art himself, and who has just published a brilliant new biography of the theological firebrand Martin Luther. Yet when I meet the journalist, broadcaster and writer Peter Stanford for a cup of coffee to discuss his Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident, my impression is of someone of modesty who is more comfortable writing about others than being in the limelight himself.
Yet in the limelight he is, as Stanford’s book has been warmly received by reviewers, including non-Christians such as the commentator David Aaronovitch, who highlights how “brilliantly conveys to an atheist like me the nature of the internal battle that Luther underwent”.
