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This video examines news and documentary treatment of religion and religious issues on television in the postwar period. In the early days of religious broadcasting the aim had been to persuade, ev...en to convert, the nation, but by 1992 the aim was to reflect what was happening in a multi-faith Britain. Areas explored in the video are the impact of independent television in 1959; the questioning of authority in the 1960s; the Second Vatican Council; the broadcasting of religious news in the 1970s; the role of 'Thought for the Day'; religion in Northern Ireland; documentary programmes for a general audience; current affairs treatment of religious news; the impact of Channel 4 - especially on portraying faiths other than Christianity; 'popular' religious programmes on Radio 1.
This video examines news and documentary treatment of religion and religious issues on television in the postwar period. In the early days of religious broadcasting the aim had been to persuade, ev...en to convert, the nation, but by 1992 the aim was to reflect what was happening in a multi-faith Britain. Areas explored in the video are the impact of independent television in 1959; the questioning of authority in the 1960s; the Second Vatican Council; the broadcasting of religious news in the 1970s; the role of 'Thought for the Day'; religion in Northern Ireland; documentary programmes for a general audience; current affairs treatment of religious news; the impact of Channel 4 - especially on portraying faiths other than Christianity; 'popular' religious programmes on Radio 1.
| Module code and title: | A231, The growth of religious diversity: Britain from 1945 |
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| Item code: | A231; VCR2 |
| First transmission date: | 1992 |
| Published: | 1992 |
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| Duration: | 00:55:37 |
| Note: | A231/VCR2 appears to differ from A231/VCR2(R) only in that it contains a timeclock. |
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| Producer: | Betty Talks |
| Contributor: | Rosemary Hartill |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Channel 4; Everyman; Northern Ireland; Radio 1; Religion; Television; Thought for the day; Vatican |
| Subject terms: | Christianity--Great Britain; Religious pluralism; Great Britain --Religion |
| Master spool number: | DOU7119 |
| Production number: | FOUA381K |
| Videofinder number: | 4684 |
| Available to public: | no |
