RELIGIOUS TELEVISION AWARDS 2010

On 25th May 2010 the Rt Revd Nick Baines presented 4 awards at Lambeth Palace. Roger Bolton, chair of the judging panel, announced the winners.

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All the Television winners

Premier Award

The Bible: A History, Episode 1 - Creation (Pioneer Productions for Channel 4)

Producer/director Richard Sanders;  series producer Leonie Jameson; executive producer Jeremy Dear.

In the first of seven programmes looking at different aspects of the Bible, Howard Jacobson, a non-practising Jew, examines the importance of the Bible in what many call a godless age, focussing particularly on its creation story. 

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Nick Baines with Howard Jacobson, Leonie Jameson and Jeremy Dear

Runner-Up

A History of Christiantiy, Episode 1 (BBC Religion and Ethics for BBC Four)

Executive producer Jean Claude Bragard, producer/directors Gillian Bancroft and Sian Salt, presenter Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, production manager Catherine Broderick

Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the birth and expansion of Christianity over 2000 years.  This first episode looks particularly at the church in the Middle East.

Nick Baines with Jean Claude Bragard, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Sian Salt and Gillian Bancroft

Merit Award

1984: A Sikh Story (BBC Religion and Ethics for BBC One)

Executive producer Tommy Nagra; producer/director Jonathan Mayo, presenter Sonia Deol, production manager Catherine Broderick

Sonia Deol sets out to unravel the events at the Golden Temple of Amritsar that culminated in thousands of deaths, including the assassination of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.

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Tommy Nagra and Jonathan Mayo

Merit Award

Did Darwin Kill God? (BBC Religion and Ethics for BBC Two)  

Executive prodcuer Jean Claude Bragard, producer Emily Davis, presenter Conor Cunningham, production manager Catherine Broderick

Conor Cunningham is a Christian who believes in the theory of evolution.  He sets out to disprove the view widely held today that Darwin's revelations undermined Christian belief. .

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Jean Claude Bragard and Emily Davis