About Religion - Season 1
1 - The Question of Colour
Air Date: January 8, 1956
2 - Christ in Jeans
Air Date: March 23, 1958
A modern version of the passion play-just how would have Jesus been treated in the 20th Century?
3 - Deadline
Air Date: October 26, 1958
4 - The Lonely Ones
Air Date: March 1, 1959
A young girl recalls her life as a refugee and shows those escaping from Hungary,the Middle East and those arriving in Hong Kong.
5 - The Lonely Shepherd
Air Date: March 15, 1959
A look at the increasing numbers that are living alone.
6 - The Seven Deadly Sins #1 Anger
Air Date: March 6, 1960
7 - The News on Good Friday
Air Date: April 15, 1960
How modern-day television would have reported the death of Jesus.
8 - The Acts of the Apostles
Air Date: June 5, 1960
9 - Love Is My Calling
Air Date: November 27, 1960
TV cameras record for the first time the initiation ceremony in which a young woman becomes a nun.
10 - The Hungry
Air Date: May 7, 1961
A look at the work of various religious organizations trying to deal with hunger in Africa and Korea.
11 - Man's Idea of God
Air Date: August 27, 1961
12 - Inquest at Golgotha
Air Date: October 1, 1961
13 - King Herod: Committed for Trial
Air Date: October 29, 1961
14 - Punishment
Air Date: January 1, 1962
A look at the recent trial of war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Israel.
15 - This Is the End
Air Date: July 22, 1962
A dying man gets the 'This is Your Life' treatment in a porch play filmed in the ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral.
16 - The Vision and the Dream
Air Date: November 18, 1962
17 - Dinner with the Devil
Air Date: December 23, 1962
18 - The Night Before the Execution
Air Date: April 14, 1963
19 - The Site
Air Date: May 26, 1963
20 - Context
Air Date: August 4, 1963
21 - Epilepsy
Air Date: August 11, 1963
22 - The Upper Room
Air Date: October 20, 1963
23 - The Rise and Fall of a Hero: An Anthology for Palm Sunday
Air Date: March 22, 1964
24 - Dont Call Him Mister
Air Date: April 12, 1964
An account of the founder of the Quaker religion George Fox.
25 - Inspiration
Air Date: May 17, 1964
26 - Man of Peace
Air Date: December 13, 1964
27 - A Face for Judas
Air Date: April 4, 1965
28 - No Greater Love
Air Date: April 18, 1965
The story of Mother Maria, a Paris based white Russian nun who sacrificed her life helping Jews during the German occupation. Her last days were spent in the Ravensbruck concentration camp where she took the place of another prisoner heading for the gas chamber four days before liberation.
29 - But One Purpose: Part 2
Air Date: June 11, 1965
30 - Margaret Hayes Missing Presumed Dead
Air Date: July 27, 1965
Story of Margaret Hayes, an African Missionary and nurse who went missing for several months in the Congo and believed to have been killed by rebels-but later found safe and well.
31 - The Saturday People
Air Date: August 22, 1965
A look at the work of the Seventh-Day Adventists who contribute one tenth of each of their annual income to charitable causes and famine relief.
32 - Going with the Crowd
Air Date: September 5, 1965
A look at suburban behaviour inspired by Gordon Stowell's book 'A Satire on Materialism'
33 - Where Are the Neighbours?
Air Date: October 17, 1965
As more slum dwellings are dismantled so are the communities that lived there.Ludovic Kennedy investigates if religion is doing enough to ensure people are not feeling isolated in their new homes.
34 - Rock Bottom ; Men of the Road
Air Date: April 3, 1966
About Religion looks at the results of a Government survey into the problems faced by homeless people.