Your Week's Religious Viewing and Listening

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your Week's Religious Viewing and Listening
Broadcasting Bulletin: Saturday 3 – Friday 9 September 2005


Saturday 3 September

Film: Quo Vadis  Another outing for this 1950s epic starring Deborah Kerr
and Peter Ustinov.  Under the sadistic Nero, Christianity is outlawed and
the beautiful daughter of a Roman general must choose between her faith and
her lover.  12.50pm BBC2

Revelations  Ever since it was created in 1960, the ballet Revelations has
brought audiences to their feet.  Here, Thomas DeFrantz traces the story of
this American Dance Theater’s signature work, inspired by the spirituals and
the black Baptist congregations of Texas.  Forty five years on, the company
is bringing this ballet to the UK.  3.30pm   R4FM

The Road to 9/11    This programme is a crisp survey of recent history and
tells the story of how the Muslim world fell out with the West – dating from
the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918.  8pm Ch4


Monday 5 September

The Tottenham Ayatollah Revisited.  A reshowing of John Ronson’s 1997 film
portrait of Omar Bakri Mohammed, the controversial Muslim cleric who, in the
wake of the London bombings, has become a tabloid hate figure and the
subject of a government banning order.  8pm Ch4

Battle for Islam  British Muslim writer Ziauddin Sardar travels to five
countries to reveal how heads of government, intellectuals and opinion
formers are seeking new interpretations of Islam, offering a more tolerant
approach to other faiths and cultures and striving to disentangle religion
from political ideology.  The programme asks if change could mean a future
of peaceful co-existence between Muslim and non-Islamic countries.  9pm BBC2


Wednesday 7 September
Choral Evensong today is from Beverley Minster  4pm R3

Thursday 8 September

Jerusalem: An Anthem for England  Should England have its own national
anthem and should William Blake’s visionary poem become that anthem?
9.10pm  BBC4


NB      A reminder that this broadcasting bulletin does not include the many
regular religious programmes such as Prayer for the Day, Thought for the
Day, Daily Service, Songs of Praise, which appear on TV and radio on a daily
or weekly basis.


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