Sir – Despite what Mr Emlyn-Jones (Letters, April 24) says, I still find it surprising that someone in Britain can grow up never having heard of, say, Bach’s St Matthew Passion, or the Oberammergau Passion Play; or, having heard of them, not know that they are about the Christian story.
This, I think, is what commentators mean by Britain being a Christian country: not that the majority of the population is Christian, but that many of our concepts, practices, customs, and so forth are derived from Christianity. Although Bach was not, of course, British, his two Passions are central parts of the canon of Western music.
A. M. Hughes (Mr), Headington
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