Your week's religious broadcasting

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious broadcasting
Broadcasting Bulletin for 17-23 December 2005

Saturday 17 December

Bach at Christmas   Bach all day every day until Christmas is the idea.
Starting at 7am on R3


Sunday 18 December

Stranger in the Manger?  4/5  Graham Kendrick joins a service of
contemporary Christian worship in north London.  10am BBC1

Parish in the Sun   8/8  Help for an English prisoner in jail in Palma  2pm
ITV1

The Hall of Fame Concert  Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ, with Jean Rigby.
Alistair Miles and choristers of St Paul’s cathedral.  5pm Classic FM.

Songs of Praise    to Lincoln cathedral for a candlelit celebration of
Christmas  5.10pm  BBC1

The Story of God  3/3  Professor Robert Winston explores how belief in God
has been challenged in the modern world by secular ideas.  7pm BBC1.


Wednesday 21 December

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat  a behind the scenes look at
the musical interpretation of the Bible story, followed by a feature-length
adaptation.    7.15pm  Ch5

Lutheran Vespers    Live from the Church of St Anne and St Agnes in London
4pm R3

Evening Concert:  Handel’s Messiah   9pm Classic FM


Thursday 22 December

The True and Inspirational Life of St Nicholas   A street theatre tells the
story of the man behind Santa’s beard.   2.15pm R4

Bach at Christmas  tonight includes the Archbishop of Canterbury offering
his thoughts on the spiritual content of Bach’s St Matthew’s Passion which
follows  7pm R3

It’s My Story: The Vietnamese Buddha     A party of monks, nuns and lay
people on a trip to Vietnam with their Zen Buddhist Master.  8pm R4

Evening Concert    An evening of Christmas music, including Britten’s
Ceremony of Carols and John Rutter’s Star Carol.  9pm Classic FM


Friday 23 December

York Minster at Christmas  an intimate portrait of one of England’s greatest
cathedrals when cameras follow York Minster’s  128 staff and 600 volunteers
as they prepare for the Christmas services.  9pm BBC2

Evening Concert  Nick Bailey presents the Classic FM carol concert recorded
in Westminster Abbey.   9pm Classic FM


Plus:
Thought for the Day
Speaker for the week:
Saturday -  Rev Roy Jenkins
Monday -    Rev Dr Colin Morris
Tuesday -    Rev Angela Tilby
Wednesday  The Bishop of London
Thursday     Oliver McTernan
Friday -        Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks

Pause for Thought
Speakers for the week:
Saturday -   6.15am   Rev Robert Atkins
Monday -     6.15am  Nick Baines (Mond/Tues/Wed/)

Monday      9.15am  Rabbi Pete Tobias
Tuesday     9.15am Rev Roy Wiliamson
Wednesday 9.15 Major Charles King
Thurs  9.15 Rev Ruth Scott  (6.15: Mary Steel)
Fri 9.15 Rev Roger Royle (6.15: Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor)

Prayer for the Day
Speaker for the week:
Professor Gordon Graham

Plus:
Moral Maze repeat of last Wednesday’s 11/11 R4



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