Your week's religious broadcasting

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious broadcasting
Broadcasting Bulletin for Saturday 22 – Friday 28 October
Saturday 22 October
Film:  Pope Joan    Liv Ullman disguises herself as a monk and eventually
ends up as Pope.   11.20pm BBC2
Sunday 23 October
Songs of Praise  The first of two programmes revealing the nation’s top
twenty hymns.  Expert help comes from Graham Kendrick.  5.05pm BBC1
Monday 24 October
This Sceptred Isle: Empire    This 90-part, daily  history lesson, today
reaches the period of the Pilgrim Fathers.  3.45pm R4
The Battle for Britain’s Soul   Birth of the welfare state, US evangelism
and a revolution in sexual freedom are all factors in the evolution of today
’s largely secular society.  Peter Owen-Jones presents the last in the
series.   7pm BBC2
Tuesday 25 October
Faith in Africa    Bob Geldof talks to Paul Vallely about the significant
role of faith among Africans, who are deeply religious across strong
traditional, Christian or Muslim beliefs.   8.30pm R2
Wednesday 26 October
Choral Evensong   from Waltham Abbey    4pm R3
Thursday 27 October
Club Class:  Opus Dei  Journalist Simon Cox gains access to the hidden world
of Opus Dei to separate the fact from the fiction    8pm R4
Blitz: London’s Firestorm    Takes a look at this haunting piece of history,
and features the fight to save St Paul’s Cathedral.  “The night the film
looks at, fires raged over huge areas, but Churchill understood the symbolic
importance of St Paul’s”.   9pm C4
Friday 28 October
Film: The Wicker Man  Edward Woodward stars as the devoutly Christian
policeman who finds his beliefs tested on the pagan shores of Summerisle in
this cult classic.   9pm ITV3




Thought for the Day
Speakers for the week:
Saturday -   Brian Draper
Monday -    Clifford Longley
Tuesday -    John Bell
Wed. -          Rhidian Brook
Thursday -   Dom Antony Sutch
Friday -        Dr Mona Siddiqui
Pause for Thought
Speakers for the week:
Monday -      6.15am  : Roshan Doug  (Mon – Fri)
                      9.15am  Fr Brian D’Arcy
                      Overnights throughout the week: Sharon Grenham-Toze

Tuesday -       9.15am Nagaraja
Wednesday    9.15am Rob Gillion
Thursday       9.15am Oliver McTernan
Friday            9.15am  Roger Royle
Prayer for the Day
Speaker all week:  Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths

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Plus:
Moral Maze  Wednesday R4 repeated Saturday


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