Your week's religious viewing and listening

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious viewing and listening

BROADCASTING BULLETIN
Saturday 11 – Friday 17 June 2005

Sunday 12 June

Choral Evensong  No Choral Evensong last Wednesday, because of the
wall-to-wall Beethoven, so today’s rescheduled programme comes from
Gloucester Cathedral.  4pm R3

Bernstein’s Mass    Opera, rock, blues, Broadway and the catholic mass;
this work for singers, players and dancers caused a storm of controversy at
its first performance in 1971.    5.45pm R3

Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic  With nearly two million Muslims living in Britain,
a new generation has grown up knowing only this country as its home.  This
documentary finds out what it really means to be a Muslim living in
present-day Britain.  7pm BBC2

The Vicar of Dibley  Dibley decides to celebrate the new millennium by
erecting a statue.  Guest appearance by Jeremy Paxman.  8.20pm BBC1


Monday 13 June

Composer of the Week:  Ralph Vaughan Williams    each day  12 noon R3

Square Peg in a Round Hole  The life and opinions of English clergyman and
essayist Sydney Smith – whose outlook on life is as entertaining now as it
was two hundred years ago.     Monday to Friday this week  3.30pm R4

Spiritual Shopper    Hindu yoga, Christian meditation, helping in the
kitchen of a Sikh Gurdwara, and performing Christian gospel music.  All
included tonight in the second programme of this 3-part series which
introduces spiritual practices to the non-religious.  8pm Ch4


Tuesday 14 June

Big Ideas that Changed the World    3/6  In this programme Archbishop
Desmond Tutu looks at Christianity.  He speaks movingly about his life and
how his faith gave him strength and conviction in his struggle against
apartheid.   7.15pm Ch5


Wednesday 15 June

Choral Evensong returns to its regular slot, with the service today coming
from Worcester cathedral.  4pm R3



Thursday 16 June

Composer of the Week: Vaughan Williams.  Today’s lunchtime programme
includes excerpts from his only oratorio, Sancta Civitas  12.00 noon R3

The Riot that Never Was    12 years before Orson Welles terrified America
with his War of the Worlds radio broadcast, a mischievous Catholic priest,
Father Ronald Knox, had done the same on the BBC.  Presenter Ray Snoddy
finds that the then BBC managing director John Reith’s reaction was a
surprising one.  11.30 R4FM


Plus regular series:

The Moral Maze has returned      Saturdays 10.15pm R4  (repeats)
                                                      Wednesdays 8pm  R4
3/10


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