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UK media needs to address shortfalls in religious Literacy
By Julia Bicknell
“I see you’ve done religion...is that ALL you can do?”
The question from a senior manager interviewing me for my first producer’s job on BBC World Service some years ago. Considering over the previous six months I’d produced a weekly news and current affairs programme for the UK’s national radio station, Radio 4, reporting everything from the assassinations of a number of Iranian Muslim converts-become-church-leaders to the aftermath of the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero, which was accelerating liberation theology from a Latin American local phenomenon into a global movement, this seemed a somewhat strange comment.
Plus, in complete contrast to global news, I had pioneered and launched – with a senior mentor - a weekly programme for the youth audience of Radio 1, Talkabout, discussing ‘touchy-feely’ topics such as bereavement (the death of mum, dad, sibling, grandparent, best friend, teacher…), parental divorce and unemployment (it was the early/mid-80s). The Radio 1 bosses had come to the ‘R...Read more
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