Fr Reggie Fuller was a distinguished Scripture scholar and founding member of the Catholic Biblical Association of Great Britain. To mark his death, we offer the following reminiscence by Fr Henry Wansbrough OSB

I last visited Reggie some five years ago, in 2007, seeking information for an obituary-article on his school-friend and long-term colleague Dom Bernard Orchard. At the age of 99 he was still bright, lively and humorous. We spent a couple of hours together while he poured out his memories of their long association, jumping sparrow-like from one project to another. They had become colleagues as pupils at Ealing Priory School, and, though Reggie later moved to Ampleforth, continued their association for three-quarters of a century. This long-playing duet was of major significance for English Catholic biblical studies, and particularly for ecumenism. Always self-effacing, Reggie allowed himself to remain largely in the shadow of Bernard’s expansive, dominating character. Among their joint projects were two important publications, A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture (of which Bernard was editor for the first edition in 1953 and Reggie for the second in 1969) and the Revised Standard Version of the Bible – Catholic Edition (1966). Reggie was, however, perfectly capable of initiatives of his own, being a founder member and Secretary of the Catholic Biblical Association of Great Britain and founder of the periodical Scripture.

This review covers the three interesting and well-produced programmes in the BBC2 series on the Bible’s Buried Secrets (15th, 22nd, and 29th March 2011). The first programme dealt with King David, the second with monotheism, and the third with the Garden of Eden. All three programmes were presented by the respected Exeter University biblical scholar, Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou. She helpfully included interviews with scholars of diverse views, both for and against her point of view. Overall the programmes offered new historical angles on the biblical stories, but it is not always clear that they captured their “real meaning.”