Your week's religious viewing and listening

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious viewing and listening
BROADCASTING BULLETIN:  Friday 25 March – Friday 1st April 2005



Friday 25 March

Thought for the Day  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the speaker on Good
Friday.   7.48am   R4
For the remainder of Good Friday’s programmes, see last week’s schedule.


Saturday 26 March

Prayer for the Day   The Bishop of London is the speaker today.  5.43am R4

Lent Talks   The final repeats of this series.  5.45am and 7.45pm  R4

Film:  Heaven Knows, Mr Allison   Deborah Kerr as a Catholic nun and Robert
Mitchum as a US marine are stranded together on a South Pacific island
occupied by the Japanese 
..  BBC2

Mr Harvey Lights a Candle  gentle quirky drama starring Timothy Spall as a
repressed schoolteacher taking his pupils on a coach trip to Salisbury
cathedral.  The script weaves in some interesting religious threads.
10.05pm   BBC1


Sunday 27 March

Risen Today  A live Easter Day celebration of Holy Communion from the parish
church of St Peter’s Leeds.  10am  BBC1

Urbi et Orbi  The traditional Easter message and blessing live from St Peter
’s in Rome.  11am  BBC1

The Opera Babes in Jerusalem  Operatic duo Karen Knight and Rebecca England
travel to the Holy City to retrace the steps of Jesus.  11.45am ITV1

Easter in Art  3/3  The Resurrection.  Presented by Tim Marlow  1.15pm Ch5

Spring Journey  4/4  The Bishop of Durham concludes his 4 part series.
3.30pm R3

Choral Evensong on Easter Sunday  Live from the chapel of King’s College,
Cambridge    4pm  R3

Jesus of Nazareth  Part two  4.05pm ITV3

Easter at King’s  A Bach concert recorded in the chapel of King’s College,
Cambridge  6.30pm  R3

The Mystery of the Shroud  Unravelling the mystery of the 2000 year old
shrouded body discovered in a Jerusalem tomb. 12.55am (Monday) ITV1


Easter Monday

Middlemarch  The first of 20 episodes telling the story of Dorothea Brooke
and her decision to marry the ghastly ageing cleric Edward Casaubon.
Broadcast as the Woman’s Hour drama at 10.45am for the next four weeks, and
repeated at 7.45pm  on R4


Tuesday 29 March
The Headmaster and the Headscarves: This World   The banning of religious
symbols in schools has become a talking point here, and in France it has
become law.  This film follows a group of veiled girls at a Paris school who
are resisting the new law in defiance of their headmaster.   9pm BBC2


Wednesday 30 March
Beverley’s Gospel Nights.  The last in this series of gospel music’s top
acts.  Guest: the Revd Jesse Jackson.   9pm R2



Plus, regular series:

Beyond Belief       13/13       Monday  R4   4.30pm

Choral Evensong  Live from the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Holy
Island, Northumberland.     Wednesday R3 4pm

Moral Maze          10/10         Wednesday R4 8pm



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