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| Sunday 23rd November | ||
| 6.05am |  |
Something Understood Money Worries: Mark Tully explores the complexities of our relationship with money. He asks why we spend so much time worrying about money and why can it have such a corrosive effect on our relationships. As the financial mood changes, what does money mean for us beyond the practicalities of day-to-day living? [Repeated at 11.30pm] |
| 7.10am | |
Sunday Ed Stourton 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. |
| 10.00am |  |
Best of Sunday Life Louise Minchin and Colin Jackson present highlights from the series, including a rare interview with the Dalai Lama, the lottery winners giving away their jackpot to good causes, and the man who creates the world's smallest sculptures. |
| 10.50pm | |
Revelation Tired of pondering the complexity of the Bible or the Bhagavad Gita? Give yourself a break with this fantasy thriller in which an ancient religious relic, missing for centuries, reappears in the present day and threatens to reveal its terrible secrets to the world. The computer-expert son of a billionaire and a female alchemy student (?) head off together around the world in search of the mysterious Loculus (???), competing against the evil time-travelling Grand Master to locate the powerful object. |
| Monday 24th November | ||
| 3.00pm |  |
Harvest of Fire A film set in the Amish community - which makes a change from Peter Weir's thriller Witness, although there are plot similarities. Here, FBI agent Lolita Davidovich goes to Iowa to investigate a series of barn burnings, but the solution of the crimes is of less importance than the friendship that develops between the outsider and widow Patty Duke. The two women discover they have much more in common than they expected. |
| Tuesday 25th November | ||
| 1.50am |  |
God Bless America In the aftermath of Barack Obama's historic victory in the US presidential election, this documentary looks at the future of America's Religious Right. Filmed in the run-up to the 2008 election, the programme outlines how the Religious Right had previously determined the direction of American politics through the impact of their voting patterns, which helped George Bush to victory in the 2004 presidential race. |
| 3.00am | |
Something to Think About (Digital radio) Paul Ewing returns with the assembly series for infants offering a broad range of religious, spiritual and social themes, carefully chosen for the age group. Programmes include a story, song, a reflection / prayer and opportunities for discussion. Programme 10: Jesus - the Christmas Baby. Themes: that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus; that there are clues in the story revealing who Christians believe Jesus to be. |
| 11.00pm |  |
The Essay One of a series of talks in which writers reflect on the meaning of freedom. 2. Benjamin Markovits considers the freedom of the immigrant in Britain. Half-German, half-American, part-Christian, part-Jewish, Ben has never felt fully rooted in a single culture or completely implicated in the society around him. To many, this might sound like the crisis of modern immigration: a failure to integrate. But for Ben the writer, there is freedom in being rootless in a new place - a freedom which is far from the isolation it is often associated with. |
| Wednesday 26th November | ||
| 10.00pm |  |
A Year in Tibet A Tale of Three Monks. Documentary series following a year in the life of the society living in and around the Tibetan town of Gyantse. Deputy head lama Tsultrim has to juggle running the monastery whilst complying with a myriad of government restrictions. Young monk Tsephun lives and works with his master Dondrup, a curmudgeonly old lama. Tsephun helps his master with the day-to-day jobs of cleaning and tidying; in return, Dondrup teaches Tsephun the sutras and scriptures, an essential part of becoming a monk. |
| Friday 28th November | ||
| 3.00am | |
Together (Digital Radio) Together provides a complete assembly resource for juniors, using material from a broad range of cultural and religious sources. Each programme contains a story, a song and a time for reflection and is suitable for whole school or class use. Programme 10: Christmas 2 Themes: The true meaning of Christmas. |
| 7.35pm | |
Twenty Minutes The Garden of Earthly Delights: Tim Healey finds out what we know about the Goliards, the counter-cultural composers of the original bawdy medieval songs of Orff's Carmina Burana, people often characterised as 12th century hippies and hobos. |
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