Roger Bolton writing in the Radio Times asks the question: ‘Do British schoolchildren know what Christmas is?’ In some schools in this country, little is taught about the true meaning of Christmas, possibly because secular staff are unsympathetic to religious education or because of the fear of offending those of other faiths and broadcasters aren’t doing much to remedy this ignorance. It is difficult to find any children’s programmes that regularly deal with faith issues. The Bible Society published a survey earlier this year that claimed that ‘a quarter of children indicated that they had never read, seen or heard of Noah’s Ark’, that a similar proportion had never heard of the nativity, that 43 per cent had never heard of the crucifixion and that 53 per cent had never read, seen or heard of Joseph and his coat of many colours. Does this matter? Roger Bolton says  ‘I think it does, for both cultural and communal reasons.’