Brigitte Bardot, one of the most prominent sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, managed to make it pass the film censors at the English College. The job of checking through films before they were shown had one year fallen to a young Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. In his memoirs (serialised on pages 15 and 16), the future cardinal recalled how he flagged up a steamy scene in a film with the French actress. “I am not sure about this one,” he told the then vice-rector who, after watching