Broadcasting bulletin for Saturday 4th to Friday 10th March

[Steven Levitt]

Your Week's Religious Viewing and Listening

Broadcasting bulletin for Saturday 4th to Friday 10th March

Facing the Truth New series of three programmes chaired by Archbishop
Desmond Tutu. The subject is encounters with the victims and perpetrators
from Northern Ireland’s conflict 7.50pm BBC2	 Continues tomorrow and
Monday. 

Moral Maze Repeat of last Wednesday’s programme 10.15pm R4 
Father Ted: Ted Dougal and Jack are on their best behaviour 11.55 Ch4 

Sunday 5 March 

Bells on Sunday Today from St Mary’s church at Lymm in Cheshire 5.43am R4 
Something Understood Is there a “best” way to deal with the death of a loved
one? 6.05am R4 Repeated 11.30pm 

Aled Jones Good Morning Sunday with guest, tenor Russell Watson 7am R2 
Sunday Weekly religious magazine programme presented this week by Edward
Stourton 7.10am R4 

Sunday Worship A Lent series which explores the paradoxes of faith in John’s
Gospel. Live from St Paul’s Cathedral, with Precentor Canon Lucy Winkett.
8.10am R4

The Heaven and Earth Show Roy Hattersley is one of the guests on today’s
programme. 10am BBC1 

Divine Designs looks at wall paintings dating back to before the
Reformation. 12.30pm ch5 

Songs of Praise Sally Magnusson explores the painful experience of
bereavement. 5.00pm BBC1 

Facing the Truth 2/3 Archbishop Desmond Tutu oversees another three
encounters between victims and perpetrators of Northern Ireland’s conflict.
8pm BBC2

Sunday Half Hour Today Roger Royle begins a series for Lent. 8.30pm R2 

Monday 6 March 

This Sceptred Isle: Empire In this long-running daily history series, today
the subject is Missionaries, and particularly the Christian missionaries
working in Africa. 3.45pm R4

Beyond Belief Ernie Rea and his guests discuss modern day miracles. 4.30pm
R4 

Facing the Truth the third programme in this short series with Archbishop
Tutu, looking at Northern Ireland. 9pm BBC2

Tuesday 7 March 

Soul Music looks at the hymn “I Vow to Thee My Country”. Recently attracting
controversy for its patriotism, this hymn was created just after the First
World War. Vaughan Williams had the idea to put together the stirring music
from Holst’s Jupiter, and the poem written by the American ambassador Cecil
Spring-Rice that was found on his desk when he left office. 1.30pm R4 

Wednesday 8 March 

Choral Evensong live from Norwich cathedral 4pm R3 

A Seaside Parish 9/10 Pat, Rodney and Ana are home from Romania. Rodney is
retiring as Archdeacon at 65 and must try to get a mortgage to buy himself a
house. Then it’s Christmas – Bishop Bill preaches at the Cathedral and Ana’s
gets the good news that Pat has raised enough money to re-house her
impoverished family in Romania. Bishop Bill goes on a Make Poverty History
walk across Cornwall and we meet Chris McQuillen-Wright in Newquay who - in
a quest to hammer home the problem of homelessness in the county - dresses
up as a tramp to shock churchgoers in his old parish of Hayle. 7pm BBC2

A Passion for Churches Gorton Monastery. Manchester’s Taj Mahal fell into
disrepair at the end of the 1980s but one couple seek to raise £6m to save
it. 7.30pm BBC2

The Moral Maze 7/10 live debate chaired by Michael Buerk  8pm R4 

Lent Talks A new six part series of talks recorded in Jerusalem. In this
first programme Daniel Rossing, Director of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish
Christian Relations reflects on how Jews and Christians can draw on commonly
held traditions of penance to open up channels for dialogue and paths to
peace. 8.45pm R4

Friday 10 March 

Composer of the Week: Beethoven. And in the last programme Donald Macleod
considers the preoccupations that absorbed Beethoven during the last decade
of his life. Music today includes the Kyrie from Missa Solemnis. 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 - Brian Draper 
Monday - Rosemary Lain-Priestley 
Tuesday - Indarjit Singh 
Wednesday - Rhidian Brook 
Thursday - Rev Dr Giles Fraser 
Friday - Rt Revd Richard Harries 

Pause for Thought 
Speakers for the week: 
Saturday: 6.15am Johnston McKay 
Monday 6.15am Andy Perry 9.15am Fr Brian D’Arcy 
Tuesday 6.15am Natalie Kirk 9.15am Rev Rob Gillion 
Wednesday 6.15am Suhayi Singh 9.15am Faris Badawi 
Thursday 6.15am Norman Street 9.15am Krishna Dharma 
Friday 6.15am Roshan Doug 9.15am Rose Hudson Wilkin 

There are also night-time broadcasts as 1.30am and 3.30am, 
This week’s contributors: Johnston McKay, and Chuck Yull.

Prayer for the Day 
Speaker for the week: Clair Jaquiss 



Steven

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Steven Levitt [mailto:Steven.Levitt at Rowans-Music.co.uk]
Milton
Cambridge