Your week's religious viewing and listening

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious viewing and listening:
Broadcasting Bulletin:   Saturday 12 - Friday 18 March 2005


Saturday 12 March
Film: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness  Biopic starring Ingrid Bergman as
Gladys Aylward, a young English servant, who travels to China in the 1930s
to carry the Christian creed to a country ravaged by war.    BBC2  2.20pm


Sunday 13 March
Spring Journey  A return to this series of 4 programmes in which the Bishop
of Durham reflects in words and music on the problems confronting modern
society.    R3   3.30pm

Film: Sister Act  Comedy with Whoopi Goldberg.  Lounge singer Deloris hides
in a convent after witnessing a murder 
.  ITV1 4.05pm

Lent Talk    The Miracle Worker.   Today Siobhan Redmond reads Jeannette
Winterson’s story about a life ruled by things to do.    5/6 of these
monologues for Lent inspired by ideas of temptation.   R4   5.40pm

Sacred Nation  5/6  This edition recalls the Civil War, in which Oliver
Cromwell paved the way for a future pluralistic society.  R2 8pm


Monday 14 March

Unrest in Peace  2/2  Once, cemeteries were elegant, aesthetically pleasing
burial grounds.  But with more northern Europeans now opting for cremation,
graveyards have become a different kind of place.  Patrick Wright looks at
some possible solutions to the current predicament.  R4  11am


Tuesday 15 March
Evening Concert  Includes Bach’s St Mark’s Passion and his Easter Oratorio,
Mascagni’s Easter Hymn and Schubert’s Six Antiphons for Palm Sunday.
Classic FM  9pm


Wednesday 16 March

Performance on Three   Live from Liverpool Cathedral, James MacMillan’s
Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis and Poulenc Organ Concerto.      R3 7.30pm

Twenty Minutes: Through a Glass Darkly.     This interval piece looks at
Britain’s enviable tradition of sacred stained glass.  Artist Thomas Denny
explores the factors that make medieval glass so highly regarded and the
extent to which the sense of tradition influences artists today.  R3 8.15pm

Beverley’s Gospel Nights  4/6  Soul singer Beverley Knight continues her
series showcasing top acts from the world of gospel music.   R2 9pm

The Reverend Al Green  2/4  More music from pastor Al Green whose music
bridges the gap between soul and gospel.    R2  10pm



Thursday 17 March

Film: The Last Temptation of Christ   Scorsese’s controversial biblical
drama       Ch4  11.05pm


Friday 18 March

Evening Concert  A complete performance of Haydn’s oratorio: The Creation.
Classic    FM  9pm


Also, regular series:

Monday:  Beyond Belief    11/13      R4    4.30pm

Wednesday: Moral Maze    8/10      R4   Wednesdays 8pm, repeated Saturdays
10.15pm

Wednesday: Choral Evensong         R3    Hereford Cathedral


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