Your week's religious viewing and listening

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious viewing and listening
Broadcasting Bulletin
Saturday 16-22 April 2005


Sunday 17 April

Radio 4 Appeal  This week Archbishop Desmond Tutu appeals on behalf of Help
the Hospices.     7.55am R4

Private Passions  Theologian and historian Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
shares his musical passions with Michael Berkeley.
12noon R3

The Early Music Show  The 17th century Jesuit missions in Bolivia produced
some lively and flamboyant vocal and instrumental music and in this
programme Lucie Skeaping talks about works by the Italian missionary
Domenico Zipoli.  1pm R3

The Naked Pilgrim  A repeat showing for this series in which Brian Sewell
travels from Paris to Santiago.  7.30pm  Sky Travel


Monday 18 April

Shariah TV  This series continues Monday to Thursday in programmes in which
young Muslims ask questions on subjects as diverse as conditions in
abattoirs and the use of nuclear power in Muslim states.
12.10am  Ch4


Tuesday 19 April
Film: The Gun and the Nun    The search for $30,000 and a scam involving
bogus nuns 

..  2pm Ch5

Film: The Confessions Crime drama with Robert de Niro.  A murder comes
between two brothers – one a cop the other a priest.
12.30am BBC1

God in the Music Machine  Sally Magnusson reports from Nashville on the
impact of Christianity on pop music in America   8.30pm R2


Thursday 21 April

Analysis  The Godless Continent?  Europe is supposedly the cradle of Western
Christianity, yet the EU’s Constitution omits any reference to God.  Quentin
Peel asks if secularism is now Europe’s defining characteristic.   8.30pm
R4

3 Minute Wonder  The Ten Commandments.  An exploration of the biblical
axioms.  7.55 pm Ch4


Friday 22 April
Film:  Two Mules for Sister Sara    Shirley MacLaine is the nun saved from a
fate worse than death by Clint Eastwood’s quizzical cowboy.  8pm  Sky Cinema
1.


Plus regular series such as:

Choral Evensong -         Wednesdays 4pm R3
                                       This week from Leeds Cathedral

Songs of Praise   -          Sunday 5.00  BBC1
                                        Finding out more about the Make
Poverty History
                                        Campaign

Something Understood   This long-running R4 series this week looks at the
                                         role of grandparents.      Sundays
6.05am



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