About Religion

E1 Episode 1: The Question of Colour

• Now playing
• Jan 8, 1956

E2 Episode 2: Christ in Jeans

• Mar 23, 1958

A modern version of the passion play-just how would have Jesus been treated in the 20th Century?

E3 Episode 3: Deadline

• Oct 26, 1958

E4 Episode 4: The Lonely Ones

• Mar 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.

E5 Episode 5: The Lonely Shepherd

• Mar 15, 1959

A look at the increasing numbers that are living alone.

E6 Episode 6: The Seven Deadly Sins #1 Anger

• Mar 6, 1960

E7 Episode 7: The News on Good Friday

• Apr 15, 1960

How modern-day television would have reported the death of Jesus.

E8 Episode 8: The Acts of the Apostles

• Jun 5, 1960

E9 Episode 9: Love Is My Calling

• Nov 27, 1960

TV cameras record for the first time the initiation ceremony in which a young woman becomes a nun.

E10 Episode 10: The Hungry

• May 7, 1961

A look at the work of various religious organizations trying to deal with hunger in Africa and Korea.

E11 Episode 11: Man's Idea of God

• Aug 27, 1961

E12 Episode 12: Inquest at Golgotha

• Oct 1, 1961

E13 Episode 13: King Herod: Committed for Trial

• Oct 29, 1961

E14 Episode 14: Punishment

• Jan 1, 1962

A look at the recent trial of war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Israel.

E15 Episode 15: This Is the End

• Jul 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.

E16 Episode 16: The Vision and the Dream

• Nov 18, 1962

E17 Episode 17: Dinner with the Devil

• Dec 23, 1962

E18 Episode 18: The Night Before the Execution

• Apr 14, 1963

E19 Episode 19: The Site

• May 26, 1963

E20 Episode 20: Context

• Aug 4, 1963

E21 Episode 21: Epilepsy

• Aug 11, 1963

E22 Episode 22: The Upper Room

• Oct 20, 1963

E23 Episode 23: The Rise and Fall of a Hero: An Anthology for Palm Sunday

• Mar 22, 1964

E24 Episode 24: Dont Call Him Mister

• Apr 12, 1964

An account of the founder of the Quaker religion George Fox.

E25 Episode 25: Inspiration

• May 17, 1964

E26 Episode 26: Man of Peace

• Dec 13, 1964

E27 Episode 27: A Face for Judas

• Apr 4, 1965

E28 Episode 28: No Greater Love

• Apr 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.

E29 Episode 29: But One Purpose: Part 2

• Jun 11, 1965

E30 Episode 30: Margaret Hayes Missing Presumed Dead

• Jul 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.

E31 Episode 31: The Saturday People

• Aug 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.

E32 Episode 32: Going with the Crowd

• Sep 5, 1965

A look at suburban behaviour inspired by Gordon Stowell's book 'A Satire on Materialism'

E33 Episode 33: Where Are the Neighbours?

• Oct 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.

E34 Episode 34: Rock Bottom ; Men of the Road

• Apr 3, 1966

About Religion looks at the results of a Government survey into the problems faced by homeless people.