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Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on 4 April, 1968, and we'll be considering his legacy on this week's Sunday Sequence. King was the youngest person in history to receive the Nobel Peace Prize -- at the age of 35. What he achieved, in terms of the cultural transformation of America, before his death at the young age of 39, is a lesson in the art of living a life that makes a difference. I'm particularly interested in exploring Dr King's distinctive theological and political commitments, and how one set of commitments informed the others.

Also this weekend, we'll be marking the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton, one of the greatest poets of the English language -- and one of the English language's most political poets. Politics and religion are united in the works of Milton, as they are in the works of Martin Luther King, and we'll be examining that heady ideological mix with three of the UK's leading Milton scholars, including the distinguished biographer Claire Tomalin.