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This video examines the changing nature of religious broadcasting from 1945 to 1991. It concentrates on BBC output but includes important changes initiated by independent television. It examines th...e changes which have occurred in the content, style and aims of such religious broadcasting in the post-war period. The video is in documentary format with interviews with people involved in religious broadcasting intercut with extensive archive footage. Areas explored in the context of religious broadcasting are the daily service, the impact of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, the start of regular weekly services by ITV, charismatic black-led churches, experience of the World Service in religious broadcasting, Judaism, Islam, evangelicals and the role of religion in wartime. the video concludes with a sequence about the continuing popularity of 'Songs of Praise'.
This video examines the changing nature of religious broadcasting from 1945 to 1991. It concentrates on BBC output but includes important changes initiated by independent television. It examines th...e changes which have occurred in the content, style and aims of such religious broadcasting in the post-war period. The video is in documentary format with interviews with people involved in religious broadcasting intercut with extensive archive footage. Areas explored in the context of religious broadcasting are the daily service, the impact of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, the start of regular weekly services by ITV, charismatic black-led churches, experience of the World Service in religious broadcasting, Judaism, Islam, evangelicals and the role of religion in wartime. the video concludes with a sequence about the continuing popularity of 'Songs of Praise'.
| Module code and title: | A231, The growth of religious diversity: Britain from 1945 |
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| Item code: | A231; VCR1 |
| First transmission date: | 1992 |
| Published: | 1992 |
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| Duration: | 00:55:30 |
| Note: | A231/VCR1 appears to differ from A23/VCR1(R) only in that it contains a timeclock. |
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| Producer: | Betty Talks |
| Contributors: | Rosemary Hartill; Francis House; Kenneth Wolfe |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | 1953 coronation; Anglicanism; BBC output 1945-1991; Daily service; Evangelicals; Falklands War; Judaism; Religious broadcasting; Songs of praise; World service |
| Subject terms: | Christianity--Great Britain; Religious pluralism; Great Britain --Religion |
| Master spool number: | DOU7118 |
| Production number: | FOUA380R |
| Videofinder number: | 4795 |
| Available to public: | no |
