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| Saturday 16th August | ||
| 5.45am |  |
Big Fish, Small Ponds David McKie investigates the Somerset village of Spaxton's links to an unusual clergyman and cult leader called Henry Prince, who presided over the Agapemone community in the 19th century. |
| Sunday 17th August | ||
| 6.05am | |
Something Understood Stacks of Wisdom: Mark Tully celebrates libraries. From the famous to the obscure, libraries are dusty and mysterious, solemn and weighty, dull and boring, chaste and wickedly romantic. They have contained the collected wisdom of groups and nations, they have enabled the poor to climb out of their circumstances, the poet to survive penury, the revolutionary to plot and the theologian to speculate. But do they remain as important in the modern media age? [Repeated at 11.30pm] |
| 7.10am | |
Sunday Roger Bolton and guests discuss the religious and ethical news of the week. |
| 7.30am |  |
Reporting Religion Analysis of key religious affairs stories, examining the religious aspects of world news stories. |
| 7.00pm |  |
Make Me a Christian Three-part series following a group of volunteers from the Leeds area as they give up their normal lives and attempt to live as devout Christians for three weeks. The diverse bunch include a middle-class family, a shopaholic, an atheist, a lesbian, a young Catholic and a Muslim schoolteacher. This week, a committed virgin teaches a co-habiting couple to resist sexual temptation, and the whole group spends a night helping the homeless. |
| 11.20pm |  |
A Match Made in Heaven Documentary series that goes behind the scenes in three of the most popular religious dating agencies, exposing the reality of modern-day dating for Britain's young Muslims, Jews and Christians. DJ and Christian Tim dates an American woman who proves to be a bit of a handful. Jewish girl Bianca gets some dating advice from her elders. Divorced Pakistani Muslim Samar's mother visits and suggests she returns to Pakistan to find another husband. |
| 11.45pm | |
Vicars' Wives More fun with the vicars' wives. Sarah's mum moves into town and Nickie narrowly escapes becoming a stowaway on the QE2. |
| Monday 18th August | ||
| 4.20am | |
Make Me a Christian Repeat of the first programme in the series. The volunteers begin their challenge by visiting York Minster and a series of Bible classes to confront their sins. |
| 4.30pm | |
Beyond Belief Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world, teasing out the hidden and often contradictory truths behind the experiences, values and traditions of our lives. Credit Crunch As the credit crunch is starting to bite, Beyond Belief this week looks at religious attitudes to money. Why do Christianity and Islam have different views on banking? Why are many faiths uneasy about charging interest? And how have religions, such as Christianity, changed their views on banking and investment over the centuries? |
| 8.00pm | |
The Genius of Charles Darwin Richard Dawkins presents a guide to Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of natural selection, which Dawkins considers the most important idea ever to occur to a human mind. In this final episode, he meets creationists, scientists, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, to examine the continuing controversy around Darwin's evidence. |
| Tuesday 19th August | ||
| 8.00pm |  |
Julius Caesar and the Druids: Revealed Historical documentary examining Britain's ancient Druids, as new archaeological discoveries suggest that they engaged in barbaric killings, ritual sacrifice and even cannibalism. The programme also explores the Druids' revered status amongst ancient Celts, and tells the story of their bloody last stand against Rome's conquering legions. |
| Wednesday 20th August | ||
| 8.15pm |  |
Twenty Minutes Proms Literary Festival: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, joins Susan Hitch to consider conflicting ideas about spiritual regeneration and existentialism as embodied in the characters of his literary hero, the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, on whom he has written a study. |
| Friday 22nd August | ||
| 7.30pm |  |
A Seaside Parish Documentary series following Rev Christine Musser in the Cornish parish of Boscastle. The villagers reassess their lives after the disaster, with unexpected results. While Emily decides to pursue the ambition of a lifetime and Raymund relaunches his career as an artist, life at the rectory for Christine will never quite be the same again. |
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