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RECENT RADIO PRODUCTIONS
Countdown to the Olympics listen here
Wednesdays July 2 and 9
repeats on Mondays July 7 and 14.
Producer David Coomes
Other Recent Broadcasts.
The Cult of Kidnapping
Radio 4, 2000, Monday, June 9
Presenter Frank Gardner
Producer David Coomes
Kidnapping is a growing phenomenon worldwide.
Motivation is about politics and religion, but also increasingly about money. Funding of revolutionary movements dried up in the aftermath of the Cold War, so the revolutionaries had to look elsewhere for financial support. The so-called War on Terror has exacerbated things, and also the opening up of new economic territories which has led to more people than ever before entering dangerous places.
Top of the kidnapping ‘hotspots’ are Venezuela, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan, with India not far behind. Until very recently, Colombia was undisputed ‘kidnap capital of the world’ – that was before its government decided to put into practice some hard-line policies, which are reducing the kidnapping figures but alienating a lot of Colombians most involved.
Frank Gardner, the BBC’s Security Correspondent investigates the phenomenon worldwide, and also visits Colombia where – with access to both sides of the battle to beat the kidnappers – he captures unique insights into kidnapping. It is also where he discovers that the Church is the only non-government organization allowed to get involved with kidnappers and the kidnapped.
Frank Gardner on the culture of kidnapping, in which he talks to kidnappers and kidnapped, vsits Colombia - the kidnapping capital of the world - and considers winners and losers long-term
John McCarthy visits America to report on the phenomenon of children as young as 7 engaged in a ministry of evangelism and healing.
Roger Bolton turns detective to follow the trail of how the very first Bible - Codex - has been restored and collated in the British Library, with provocative results.
From Calvary to Lambeth
Radio 4 and World Service
Archbishop Desmond Tutu expresses shame for a worldwide Church which - as he sees it is it -as he sees it - is homophobic and obsessed with issues of human sexuality. In the context of a suffering world,. God must be weeping to see a Church with priorities so different from those of its Founder. The likes of George Carey, Ann Widdecombe MP, and the US conservative Bishop, Robert Duncan, take a different line.
Presenter Michael Buerk.
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God Of War, God Of Peace
Radio 4 and World Service
In 2 programmes, the conviction that where Religion has played a part in starting a conflict Religion has to be involved in stopping it. First, the Middle East where the Alexandria Process has had some unpublicised successes - and secondly, Kaduna in Nigeria where Muslims and Christians have been reconciled.
Presenter John McCarthy
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Turning Right
Radio 4
The rise of the Far Right in Britain, and what many see as the threat posed to British society by fascism, nationalism and racism. What does the BNP really believe? And why is it claiming to have its roots in the Christian faith?
Presenter Gerry Northam
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"Who Killed Christianity?"
Radio 4
In 5 programmes, the historian, Dr David Starkey, argues that major Christian figures distorted, even betrayed, the Christianity of its Founder, Jesus Christ. St Paul, the Emperor Constantine, Martin Luther, Sir Isaac Newton and Pope John Paul II are all put in the dock - and Starkey, in each instance, engages with two defenders.
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