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Bible versions compared in great detail

To back up CS Lewis's description of Knox as "the wittiest man in Europe", it turns out that Knox was the author of the first ever radio hoax, in Britain in 1926, that caused all sorts of panic! An event that was very similar to the later 1938 War of the Worlds hoax that caused panic in the USA, and probably inspired it.
Unemployed demonstration in London. The crowd has now passed along Whitehall and, at the suggestion of Mr Popplebury, Secretary of the National Movement for Abolishing Theatre Queues, is preparing to demolish the Houses of Parliament with trench mortars. [...] The clock tower, 320 feet in height, has just fallen to the ground, together with the famous clock Big Ben, which used to strike the hours on a bell weighing nine tons.
http://www.planetslade.com/ronald-knox1.html

And then he went on to translate the Bible...
 
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