Your week's religious viewing and listening

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious viewing and listening
Broadcasting Bulletin,
Saturday 28 May – 3 June 2005

Saturday 28 May

The Archive Hour  The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research houses a unique
archive of the history of East European Jewry and Tim Whewell visits New
York to tell its story.  8pm R4


Sunday 29 May

Breakfast with Frost    David Frost’s last ever Sunday morning programme has
Archbishop Tutu as one of the guests.   9.30am  BBC1

Tim Marlow’s Judgement Day: Images of Heaven and Hell.  A repeat of this
3-part series explores how different ideas of the afterlife have been
depicted in art.   12.35pm  Ch5

Pioneer House  This 6-part series is another reality show, this time where
volunteers live as colonists in the New England of 1628.  Tonight the focus
is on Governor Wyer’s attitudes to those who break the Sabbath and skip
church.     8pm Ch4


Monday 30 May

Soul Sisters  British black women outnumber their male counterparts in the
professional world by ten to one.  They are ambitious, and determined to
succeed.  Drawing on the fortunes of the black gospel trio Nu Life,
theologian Robert Beckford explores this new branch of black feminism.

11am  R4
The Gay Divide  Throughout the Muslim world, homosexuality is a taboo
And Eric Beauchemin finds out how several hundred gays and lesbians have
fled to Israel.    8.30pm  R4.


Wednesday 1 June

Choral Evensong today comes from Queen’s College, Oxford,  4pm R3


Thursday 2 June

Soprano Emma Kirkby tells the story of Maria Hackett, who took on the might
of the ecclesiastical establishment in the 19th century in a bid to improve
the welfare and education of St Paul’s choristers.  The reforms for which
she argued laid the foundations of the British choral tradition which is now
admired worldwide.  11.30am R4

Film: the Trouble with Angels  Rosalind Russell walks away with every scene
as the Mother superior of a convent school. Hayley Mills co-stars as the
unruly pupil.   9.55am Ch4

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