Your weeks religious broadcasting

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious broadcasting
Broadcasting Bulletin for 17-24th February 2006
Friday 17 February
Desert Island Discs  a repeat for this programme with the writer on
religious matters, Karen Armstrong    9am R4
Saturday 18 February
Father Ted  The priests hold a raffle to raise funds for the leaking roof.
11.35pm Ch4
Moral Maze  Repeat of last Wednesday’s programme   10.15pm R4
Sunday 19 February
Bells on Sunday    Today from St Leonard’s church at Shipham, Somerset
5.43am R4
Something Understood  Mark Tully explores the difference between meaning and
explanation.  6.05am R4  Repeated 11.30pm
Aled Jones  Good Morning Sunday  with guest composer Don Black
7am R2
Sunday Worship    Exploring the meaning and purpose of religious buildings
and their use in the wider community.  Today’s service comes from St Martin
in the Fields, London.  8.10am R4
The Heaven and Earth Show  Gordon Brown’s favourite American preacher and
political activist Jim Wallis talks about whether religion and politics
should mix.  10am BBC1
Divine Designs  looks at York and Canterbury cathedrals   12.35pm ch5
Songs of Praise  A last look at the Unsung Heroes voted for by viewers.
5.20pm BBC1
Sunday Half Hour  Today Roger Royle presents hymns dear to Roman Catholics.
8.30pm R2
Monday 20 February
Afternoon Play: Cast in Stone  A young woman is caught between old pagan
ways and the new Christianity when she is taken from her forest home to
model for the stonemasons who are building a great cathedral at Wells.
2.15pm R4
Beyond Belief   Ernie Rea is joined by comedians with a religious belief to
find out how their faith affects their approach to comedy.  4.30pm R4
Tuesday 21 February
Miserere  Conductor and violinist Roy Goodman journeys to Rome to unravel
the mysteries surrounding Gregorio Allegri’s iconic Lenten choral work
Miserere.  1.30pm R3
Wednesday 22 February
Choral Vespers  Mozart’s Vesperae de Dominica, sung live from the Chapel of
New College Oxford  4pm R3
A Seaside Parish  We go to the Scilly Isles to see the arrival of Andrew
Penman, the new headmaster for the troubled island school, and Revd Julian
Ould,the Chaplain to the Isles, who’s worried about housing for key workers.
In Romania, Pat and Rodney catch up with Ana, who has a traumatic time with
her real family – and they discuss plans to build a hotel to employ some of
the other Romanian orphans, who are now in their late teens. In Boscastle,
Ray visits the shipwright making the new gig at a yard in Fowey – the boat’s
nearly finished.   7pm BBC2
The Moral Maze  live debate chaired by Michael Buerk  5/10  8pm R4
Thursday 23 February
Composer of the Week:  Telemann  Today’s programme charts Telemann’s
willingness to blur the lines of church and theatre, which made him several
enemies among his professional rivals in Hamburg.
12 noon R3
Plus:
The Daily Service:  This  live 15-minute service which has been broadcast
each weekday since 1928 is the longest running radio programme in
broadcasting history.    9.45am R4LW Monday - Friday
Thought for the Day  7.48am R4
Speakers for the week:
Saturday -  Catherine Pepinster
Monday -    Rev Roy Jenkins
Tuesday -    Indarjit Singh
Wednesday  Anne Atkins
Thursday     John Bell
Friday -        Rt Revd James Jones
Pause for Thought
Speakers for the week:
Saturday:    6.15am  Rev Simon Woodman
Monday      6.15  Norman Steel                 9.15am  Fr Brian D’Arcy
Tuesday      6.15  Norman Steel                9.15am Rev Rob Gillion
Wednesday 6.15  Norman Steel                9.15 Faris Badawi
Thurs          6.15  Norman Steel                9.15  Krishna Dharma
Fri               6.15  Norman Steel                9.15   Major Charles
King
There are also night-time broadcasts as 1.30am and 3.30am,
This week’s contributors:  Rev Gillean Maclean, Kavyasiddhi, Rabbi Mordechai
Wollenberg
Prayer for the Day
Speaker for the week:
Rev Stephen Shipley




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