RELIGIOUS TELEVISION AWARDS 2009
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On 1st June 2009 the Rt Revd Nick Baines presented 4 awards at Lambeth Palace. Tim Gardam, chair of the judging panel, announced the winners.
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All the winners plus Nick Baines and Tim Gardam
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Premier Award
Miracle on the Estate (BBC Religion and Ethics for BBC 1)
Producer/director Chris Salt; executive producer Hugh Faupel; researcher Nick Holden-Sim; writers Michael Symmons Roberts and James Atherton.
The residents of a tough Manchester housing estate join forces with a poet, a composer and a director to produce their own Mystery Play based on the story of the flood, uncovering in the process a sense of community and untapped talent.
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Nick Baines with Chris Salt, Nick Holden-Sim, James Atherton and Hugh Faupel
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Joint Runner-Up
The Passion, Episode 3 (BBC Drama/Deep Indigo/HBO for BBC 1)
Writer Frank Deasy; director Michael Offer; producer Nigel Stafford-Clark
Final part of a dramatisation of last week of Jesus' life based on the gospels and contemporary historical sources.
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Nick Baines with Michael Offer, Nigel Stafford-Clark and Hilary Salmon
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Joint Runner-Up
The Qur'an (Juniper for Channel 4)
Executive producer Samir Shah; producer/director/writer Antony Thomas
A journey through the Muslim world to discover how a text that inspires peace and tolerance for the majority can also allow a minority to find justification for violent conflict and terrorism.
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Nick Baines with Samir Shah
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Merit Award
Dispatches: Saving Africa's Witch Children (Red Rebel/Oxford Scientific Films for Channel 4)
Narrator Sophie Okonedo; producers/directors Mags Gavan and Joost Van der Valk; executive producers Alice Keens-Soper, Paul Woolwich
Englishman Gary Foxcroft raises money to help Nigerian Sam Itauma care for children who have been violently exorcised after being accused fo witchcraft. Gary is also trying to get the local government to protect them from the "Christian" pastors undertaking such exorcisms.
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Nick Baines with production team plus Gary Foxcroft and Sam Ikpe Itauma
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