BBC increases religious programming
By Riazat Butt, UTV
Richard Bacon and Susanna Reid are to present a new religion and ethics programme on BBC1 from next month.
Sunday Morning Live will feature short films and discussions between the hosts and their studio guests, opening out to an audience who will interact with them through phone calls, videos and emails. Bacon also has a daily afternoon show on Radio 5 Live, while Reid co-presents BBC Breakfast.
The new series, which is being made in Belfast, will have an initial run of 20 live episodes. The first programme airs on 11 July and its promise of topicality and accessibility is a throwback to The Heaven and Earth Show, a magazine show that had a cosier feel than the more adversarial format of its successor, The Big Questions, which one former panellist likened to a "lynch mob".
The new show's launch may appease those institutions that continue to despair at the perceived decline of the quality and quantity of religious programming.
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