Your Week's Religious Viewing and Listening

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your Week's Religious Viewing and Listening
BROADCASTING BULLETIN
Saturday 1 – Friday 7 October 2005
Saturday l October
Discovering Music: Arvo Part at 70     Stephen Johnson leads a workshop on
Part’s distinctive approach to the writing of sacred choral music.  He’s
joined by choral conductor Paul Hiller and by Estonia’s leading
professional choir which has made a speciality of performing the music of
their nation’s most famous national composer.   2pm R3
Father Ted    A lookalike competition on Craggy Island.  11.50pm Ch4
Sunday 2 October
Panorama  A Right Royal Shambles?  The Prince of Wales’s marriage to Camilla
Parker Bowles was widely seen as a fiasco fraught with PR disasters, doubts
about its legality and rumours of a snub by the Queen.  Steve Bradshaw
gauges the impact on the monarchy’s future.  10.15am BBC1
My Brother’s Keeper   On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Chief Rabbi is joined
by Bob Geldof and Gordon Brown to discuss how religion contributes to
humanity.  11.25pm  BBC1
Monday 3 October
The Battle for Britain’s Soul  1 of 4. With this new series, The Rev Peter
Owen-Jones (“if Indiana Jones took orders in the Church of England, this is
what he’d look like”) continues to chart the religious history of the
British Isles.  The Church in Danger.  The 18th century was a time of great
upheaval, with forces old and new poised to attack the established
Protestant Church.  The Catholics threatened religious war, reformist sects
began to challenge the Church’s comfortable monopoly, and new ideas in
science and philosophy questioned the very truth of Christian faith.  7pm
BBC2
Tuesday 4 October
Between Ourselves.  In the last of this series, talking to people in various
walks of life, Olivia O’Leary is in conversation with Canon Andrew White and
Alastair Crook about negotiating hostage releases and the ends of sieges in
the Middle East.  9am R4
Rehearsals An impressionistic portrait of contemporary Belfast.  Music,
poetry and local voices are orchestrated in a vivid depiction of the joys
and sorrows of life in a city long riven by religious and political
differences.  Radio Times “Documentary of the Week”.  7.15pm Five
Mastermind    “City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren” is one specialist
subject as the second round heats begin.  8pm BBC2
Wednesday 5 October
Choral Evensong    From Southwark Cathedral     4pm R3
The Moral Maze   A new series begins tonight with the panel of Steven Rose,
Ian Hargreaves, Claire Fox and Clifford Longley cross-examining experts on
the moral issues behind the week’s news.  8pm R4 (repeated Saturdays at
10.15pm)
Thursday 6 October
Interpretations  3/3  “Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be
comforted”.  Conductors Marin Alsop and Jane Glover discuss the factors that
influence their interpretation of Brahm’s Requiem.  11.30am R4
Hindu Lives  2/3  Krishnan Guru-Murthy continues to follow the personal
stories of three generations of British Hindus to find out how their faith
has shaped their identity, the way they live and the cultural landscape of
Britain.  8pm R4
Friday 7 October
Performance on 3  The Creation     Live from St David’s Hall in Cardiff, a
performance of Haydn’s choral masterpiece  7.30pm R3
Thought for the Day
Speakers for the week:
Saturday -   Revd Dr Giles Fraser
Monday -    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Tuesday -    Rt Revd James Jones
Wed. -          Elaine Storkey
Thursday -   Dr Jeevan Singh Deol
Friday -        Catherine Pepinster
Pause for Thought
Speakers for the week:
Monday -      6.15am  through the week: Shah Hussein
                       9.15am  Brian D’Arcy
                      Overnights throughout the week:  Mohammad Seddon
Tuesday -       9.15am Nagaraja
Wednesday    9.15am Rev Roy Jenkins
Thursday       9.15am Rev Rob Gillion
Friday            9.15am  Rev Joel Edwards

Prayer for the Day
Speaker all week:  Mobeen Azhar


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