Running the Showis a wonderful collection of documents, where we can read for ourselves what B.A.S. was saying at various times, usually to his fellow workers. His long personal history is still a minefield, or rather a series of minefields, ecclesiologically, personally and politically from the 1954 split in the ALP to the split within the NCC in the early 1980s. I do not ambition to blunder through them! These documents constitute a precious source of information for scholars, friends and opponents. The introductions to each set of documents, written by the editor Paddy Morgan, are deeply sympathetic to B.A.S.,…