Your week's religious broadcasting

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your week's religious broadcasting
Broadcasting Bulletin for Saturday 7 – Friday 13 January 2006


Saturday 7 January

Hidden Treasures    Lucinda Lambton finds a gorgeously decorated Jacobean
library concealed in a church in Slough  5.45am R4


Sunday 8 January

Good Morning Sunday  Don Maclean celebrates his final show, with Ernie Rea
and special guest Cliff Richard.  7am R2

My Uncle Silas  Dramatised from stories by HE Bates, today’s episode is
entitled “The Christening”.   4pm ITV1

The Choir  This new series presented by Aled Jones today celebrates one of
Britain’s best loved choral directors, David Willcocks.  It includes music
from the Choir of Kings College Cambridge, the Bach Choir and the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir of Salt Lake City.  6.30pm R3


Monday 9 January

Eastenders     Not another funeral 
.  This time its Dennis  8pm BBC1

The Root of All Evil?    1 of 2 -  “The God Delusion”.  Biologist and
champion of evolutionary theory Professor Richard Dawkins airs his outspoken
views on religion, confronting the march of militant religious belief across
the world and dismissing faith as an indulgence of irrationality that is
nourishing extremism, division and terror. An article in Radio Times
includes his views on faith schools. 8pm Ch4.


Tuesday 10 January

The Choice    People who have faced a life-changing choice tell Michael
Buerk about the decisions they took.  9am R4

Who Killed Christianity?  New series    1/5 “The good news of Jesus.  The
bad news of St Paul”   David Starkey argues that five major Christian
figures, starting today with St Paul, distorted, even betrayed the Christian
faith as envisaged by Jesus.  9.30am R4

Whose Britain is it Anyway    The subject of this programme is the 60
million acres of land in the UK and its population of 60 million.  Peter
Snow lifts the lid on how few of us actually own the land. The Church, which
possessed 20% of the land 1,000 years ago, has less than 1% now.  Along the
way is information about vicars selling off over one million acres of Church
land.   9pm BBC2


Wednesday 11 January

A Seaside Parish  In the second episode of the series, the small community
of Boscastle is in reflective mood at a service to mark a year since the
disastrous floods.    Meanwhile “jolly Bishop Bill” contributes a Thought
for the Day when Radio 4’s Today programme comes to Padstow, before
attending a Make Poverty History rally at the Eden Project.   7pm BBC2

Choral Evensong  Live from Wakefield Cathedral   4pm R3


Thursday 12 January

Film:  David and Bathsheba  1951 Biblical drama involving Gregory Peck Susan
Hayward and James Robertson-Justice.  1.20pm Ch4


Plus:
Thought for the Day
Speaker for the week:
Saturday -         Rev Rob Marshall
Monday -           Rev Dr Alan Billings
Tuesday -          Rt Revd Tom Butler
Wednesday       Dr Mona Siddiqui
Thursday           Dr Jeevan Singh Deol
Friday -             Rt Rev Richard Harries

Pause for Thought
Speakers for the week:
Saturday:          6.15am  Marjory Watson, Salvation Army
Monday             6.15am  Lalitavira.          9.15am Rabbi Pete Tobias
Tuesday            6.15am  Marcus Freed   9.15am Rev Roy Wiliamson
Wednesday       6.15am  Jeffrey Leader   9.15am Major Charles King
Thurs                6.15am  Suhay Singh     9.15am Rev Ruth Scott
Fri                    6.15am  Nick Baines      9.15am Rev Chris Morley

Prayer for the Day
Speaker for the week:
Rev Mary Stallard

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