Your week's religious broadcasting

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious broadcasting
Broadcasting Bulletin
Saturday 29 October – Friday 4 November


Saturday 29 October

Disc of the Week  First Vespers for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge    12.25  R3


Sunday 30 October

Parish in the Sun  1/8  Following Anglican chaplain Robert Ellis as he tends
to the needs of expats and holiday makers on the island of Majorca.   2.20pm
ITV1

Great British Islam  Sun columnist Anila Baig embarks on a personal journey
of discovery as she traces the heritage of Muslims in Britain.  Prompted to
learn more about the history of her faith after the recent London tube
bombings, she aims to find out about the relationship between Britain and
Islam in times past.  8pm C4

Sunday Feature: Terror, Faith and the Arts A number of programmes this week
mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot.  Exploring its religious
and political backdrop, here David Skinner surveys the artistic responses of
the time.  9.30pm  R3


Monday 31 October

Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief  First shown on BBC4, Jonathan
Miller uncovers the nature and history of atheism  7pm BBC2

Gunpowder Women    A week-long series of plays focusing on women caught up
in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.  1/5 The Pilgrim.  Robert Catesby’s cousin
sets off from her Essex home on a pilgrimage to St Winifred’s Well in Wales.
On the way she visits some of the major Catholic families in the country and
arouses suspicion.  Broadcast daily in the Woman’s Hour slot and again at
7.45pm R4

Wife Swap    When a devout Christian mother of three from Oklahoma in the
Bible-Belt swaps lives with a liberal gay father of two from Washington
state, the stage is set for an explosive finale to this exchange series.
9pm C4


Tuesday 1 November

Vivaldi is the Composer of the Week, and today’s programme looks at his
sacred music   12 noon  R3

Service of Remembrance:  London 2005   A service to remember the victims of
the London bombings of 7 July.  The sermon is preached by the Archbishop of
Canterbury    2.40pm  BBC1 and   2.58pm   R4

Faith in Africa  2/2  Bob Geldof talks again to journalist Paul Vallely
about the impact of Christianity and Islam on African society.  Contributors
include Archbishop Desmond Tutu.  8.30pm R2

Karma Lives  As the UK’s Hindus celebrate the festival of Diwali a cross
section of the community reveal how their faith has helped them to make
sense of modern life.  11.50pm BBC1


Wednesday 2 November

Choral Evensong: Solemn Requiem for All Souls’ Day  Live from Winchester
Cathedral   4pm R3
Thinking Allowed  More Gunpowder Plot.  This programme asks Why is it that
in our modern multicultural society we still turn out every 5th November to
commemorate a planned act of Catholic terrorism that was defeated four
hundred years ago?  4pm R4


Friday 4 November

The Gunpowder Plot – Timewatch    In 1605 a group of angry young Catholic
men decided to wipe out the monarchy and government by blowing up the Houses
of Parliament.   9pm BBC2


Thought for the Day
Speakers for the week:
Saturday -      Rev Roy Jenkins
Monday -        Clifford Longley
Tuesday -       Akhandadhi Das
Wed. -             Rhidian Brook
Thursday -      Rosemary Lain-Priestley
Friday -           Rt Revd Bishop Harries

Pause for Thought
Speakers for the week:
Saturday        6.15am, Rev Blair Robertson
Monday -        6.15am  : Christine Hardman  (Mon – Fri)
                        9.15am  Fr Brian D’Arcy
                        Overnights throughout the week: Geetha Maheshwaran

Tuesday        9.15am Nagaraja
Wednesday   9.15am Lord Carey
Thursday       9.15am Oliver McTernan
Friday            9.15am  Roger Royle

Prayer for the Day
Speaker all week:  Fr Oliver Crilly


Plus:
Moral Maze  Wednesday R4 repeated Saturday


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