Ray Bruce
Head of Programmes
Ray Bruce specialises in religion, history, archaeology and the politics of the Middle East. His particular passion is unraveling the true story of Christian origins and exploring religion in the modern world and he has produced programmes on these topics for the major UK and American factual networks.
Ray joined CTVC in 1989 after successful careers as a teacher, lecturer, and writer in religion and multi-cultural education. Productions for C4 include the critically acclaimed 2 hour documentary, Battle For The Holy Land - Jerusalem, 4 series of the groundbreaking Muslim debate programme Shariah TV where young Muslims explore issues of their faith (the last series produced from a rooftop in the Old City of Jerusalem), Opus Dei - The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code and The Secret Family of Jesus. For ITV, Victim 001, the award winning story of Father Mychal Judge, the first victim of 9/11, 7/7 Remembered, The Real Mary Magdalene, Little Town of Bethlehem , Flight of Faith and Carols for Christmas From Chase Hospice. For Five and National Geographic International, a 4 part series Secrets of the Cross looking at tantalizing Bible mysteries.
For the National Geographic Channels, he produced, Writing The Dead Sea Scrolls and Re-making the Turin Shroud . For BBC 1, he has just completed a two part series The Story of Jesus and is currently working on an international co-production on the controversy surrounding the proposed building of a mosque at Ground Zero for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
tel: 020 7940 8488
email ray.bruce@ctvc.co.uk
