 Hello fellow followers of Christ. I'm Joseph Pierce and I'm truly honored to have been invited by my friends at Tan Books to host this series The Authority. We're covering authors right across the spectrum of history in these shows from Homer, the father of literature, going back to almost a thousand years before the time of Christ, right up to the 20th century. Some of them are very well-known writers, including the Giants if you like, so Homer as we mentioned, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Dickens, all the obvious Giants but we're also including maybe lesser-known characters such as St. Robert Sutherl, the poet Richard Cresshaw, Robert Hugh Benson, a priest novelist of the 20th century, Maurice Bering, a great friend of Chestnut and Bellock who was a best-selling novelist who's sadly largely forgotten. So we'll be looking at authors are both very well-known, the household names and those who aren't household names but should be come with me on an adventure in the Authority.