Your Week's Religious Viewing and Listening

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your Week's Religious Viewing and Listening
BROADCASTING BULLETIN
Saturday 20 August – Friday 26 August 05


Saturday 20 August


Vicar of Dibley    Its August, so, naturally, this is the Christmas 2004
episode.  9.10pm BBC1


Sunday 21 August


Britain at War:  a Nation Remembers   Conflict in the Far East ended 60
years ago, bringing the Second World War to its conclusion.  The Prince of
Wales leads over 1,000 veterans in a wreath-laying and service of
remembrance at the cenotaph on Whitehall.      11.30am BBC1

A Life in Music Writer and historian Ruth Smith talks about her work on
Handel’s oratorios.   3.30pm  R3


Panorama Special  Reporter John Ware has spent the weeks since the London
bombings of 7 July talking to leaders of Britain’s Muslim communities.  The
programme also examines the extent of Islamist ideology which the Muslim
Council of Britain and their affiliates have brought to Britain over the
past 40 years.  10.20pm BBC1


Monday 22 August


God’s Rottweiler?  Many Catholics were worried when Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger was chosen to succeed Pope John Paul.  This biography unravels the
changing history of a man once hailed as a radical reformer, but now reviled
in some circles as an obstacle to the modernization of the Church.  8pm Ch4


Tuesday 23 August


The Birmingham Rep Riot:  Behind the Scenes    How did the Birmingham
Repertory Theatre’s attempt to reach out to an ethnic minority audience
result in death threats, a riot and the premature closure of a play?  This
programme reveals why the consultation process with local Sikhs over the
production of a relatively obscure play about corruption and abuse in a Sikh
temple went so badly wrong.
8pm R4



Wednesday 24 August


Choral Evensong    This week’s broadcast comes from the Priory Church,
Edington in Wiltshire, during the 2005 Festival of Music within the Liturgy.
4pm R3


A reminder that this Bulletin does not include the continuous programmes
like Prayer for the Day, Thought for the Day, Daily Service, Songs of Praise
which appear on radio and television through every week of the year.


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