Front Row | Depictions of Christ from Dorothy L Sayers to James Frey
Based on Resistance by Owen Sheers
Mark Lawson examines dramatic and literary portrayals of Jesus Christ, from Dorothy L Sayers' landmark radio drama of the 1940s to the new novel from James Frey. We hear from writers A N Wilson, James Frey, John Niven, Russell T Davies, Frank Deasy and Owen Sheers.
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Licence: ERA Licence required
- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 28'05''
- Broadcast date: 2011
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Literary Resource
The Film Programme | Resistance
"Resistance" a counterfactual film that encompasses the struggle between invading Nazis and Welsh farmers. Interviews with Owen Sheers and Amit Gupta.
Open Country | Resistance
Author and poet Owen Sheers visits South Wales, the setting for his book Resistance, which was inspired by the tales he heard growing up of a secret rural army trained to hold off a potential German invasion during the second world war.