Your week's religious viewing and listening

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious viewing and listening:

BROADCASTING BULLETIN:  Saturday 19 - Friday 25 March 2005


Saturday 19 March

Lent Talks  repeats of the Jeanette Winterson story “The Miracle Worker”
R4    5.45am  and 7.45pm

Ghost Stories  “The Shifting of the Sands”     A cleric is sent to a remote
coastal parish and soon realizes that the rural community worship different
gods from that of the Christian Church.  R4   12.30am (Sunday)


Sunday 20 March:  Palm Sunday

Private Passions  A repeat of the edition featuring former nun Karen
Armstrong.  Her musical passions include Gregorian chant, Purcell, Bach and
Bob Dylan.    R3  12.00 noon

Divine Designs  Paul Binski visits St Giles in Cheadle and the Free Church
in Glasgow.  Ch5  12.35
Easter in Art  Tim Marlow explores the Easter Story  Ch5  1.15pm

Sunday Best: Seven Last Words  The Seven Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
have been set to music by different composers.  Here a selection is played
and discussed by Denis McCaldin  R4 1.30pm

Spring Journey   In the third of this four-part series the Bishop of Durham
reflects on the healing power of the imagination, fuelled by art.  R3
3.30pm

Lent Talks  The last monologue for Lent on the theme of temptation.  R4
5.40pm  (repeated Saturday)

Sacred Nation  Christopher Eccleston concludes a look at the historically
pluralistic aspects of Britain’s approach to religion and faith.  R2 8pm


Monday 21 March

The Gospel Truth?  Broadcaster and theologian Robert Beckford investigates
claims that gospel music has its root not in African culture, but in the
Gaelic traditions of Highland Scots slave-owners.  To test this, ten Gaelic
psalm singers from the Isle of Lewis are taken to a church in Alabama to
sing before a traditional gospel congregation.  Ch4 8pm and repeated at
3.15am (Saturday)

Holy Tears  Four reflections on the shedding of tears in the Bible make up
this short series for Holy Week.  Today, King David’s tears for Absalom.  R4
3.45pm

Belief   A new series of Joan Bakewell’s talks with artists, scientists and
thinkers about what they believe.  1/5  Benjamin Zephaniah  R3  7pm

Evening Concert  The first broadcast of the new requiem mass by Welsh
composer Karl Jenkins.  Classic FM  9pm


Tuesday 22 March

Holy Tears  “Tears of a Sinner”.  Today’s programmes focuses on the tears
shed by the sinful woman in St Luke’s gospel.     R4 3.45pm

Belief    2/5  Philosopher Antony Flew, a former atheist and now a believer
in God.   R3 7pm


Wednesday 23 March

Holy Tears  The Shortest Verse in the Bible says “Jesus wept”.  The
programme explores the  emotions behind this verse.   R4  3.45pm

Belief  Joan Bakewell talks to Muslim academic and feminist Professor Haleh
Afshar about the nature of her beliefs.    R3 7pm

Performance on 3.  Easter and Kings    Bach’s St John’s Passion is the first
of a series of special concerts through the week from King’s College Chapel
in Cambridge.    R3 7.30pm

Coronation Street  The funeral of the murdered car mechanic.  ITV1 7.30pm

Evening Concert   Bach’s St Matthew Passion      Classic FM 9pm

Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People?  An exploration of how three
practicing Christians continue to believe in God despite their adverse
circumstances.     BBC1  11.20pm


Thursday 24 March

Holy Tears  The last in this short series looks at Peter’s denial of Christ.
R4  3.45pm

Belief    4/5  Joan Bakewell talks to Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate for
Chemistry.  R3  7.30pm

Requiem for Romero.  Maurice Walsh looks at the assassination of the
Archbishop of El Salvador, Oscar Romero, and assesses the evidence and the
legacy of Central America’s most celebrated martyr.  R4 8pm

Performance on 3  The King’s Singers in a concert live from King’s College
Chapel, Cambridge     R3  8pm


Friday 25 March:  Good Friday

Nailing the Cross  A reflection on the image of the cross and the events of
Good Friday with writer, Rhidian Brook.     BBC1 10am

The Wickedest Man  Has Judas been unfairly treated?  The New Testament
brands Judas as the villain, though biblical accounts of his betrayal of
Christ and subsequent suicide are ambiguous and contradictory.  But the
programme also reflects a more revisionist, kinder view of Judas as a
vehicle of God’s will - for without Judas, it is argued, there could be no
betrayal, no Crucifixion and no resurrection.
R4  11am

A Passion for Radio  A harmonisation of the four Gospel narratives,
interleaved with commentary and interviews from Jerusalem, London and
Manchester.  R3  2pm

Belief  5/5  Guest, poet Michael Symmons Roberts    R3  7.20pm

At the Foot of the Cross   Roger Royle presents a meditation to mark Good
Friday, featuring the music of Bach and Allegri.  R2   9.30pm

The Seven Last Words: Easter at Kings    Haydn’s Seven Last Words.  And
readings from the Gospels by the Dean of King’s College.   R3 10.15pm

Good Friday Liturgy  A meditation on the Passion of Christ from El Salvador
where the programme visits sites associated with Oscar Romero who was
assassinated 25 years ago.  R4 3pm

Before Their Time  The death of Jesus sent shock waves through his
followers.  By looking at a series of unusual and deeply personal stories
the programme explores how people, like the disciples, can cope with the
unexpected loss of a loved one.   R4  3.30pm

Jesus of Nazareth    Shown in two parts, this is Franco Zeffirelli’s
spectacular dramatization of the life of Jesus.  The final episode is shown
on Easter Day.     ITV3  6.10pm


Plus, regular series:

Beyond Belief       12/13       Monday  R4   4.30pm

Choral Evensong  King’s College, Cambridge      Wednesday R3 4pm

Moral Maze          9/10         Wednesday R4 8pm





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