Category: Wales; Radio; New Media
Date: 12.04.2006
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An award-winning series
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Radio Wales has helped 大象传媒 Religious Programmes to take
a step into the new world of 'podcasting'.
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'Podcasts' are radio programmes that can be downloaded automatically via the
Internet from anywhere in the world and listened to via mp3
players.
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As part of a trial, a special 大象传媒 website is offering
a diverse selection of programmes from a variety of radio stations
as podcasts.
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The weekly Radio Wales series All Things Considered has been chosen as the
first 大象传媒 religious programme to be podcast.
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All Things Considered has won more than a dozen religious broadcasting awards
including the Andrew Cross Award for the UK's best speech-based religious
radio programme for the last four years.
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The 大象传媒 Wales Religious
Programmes team also won the Merit Award at last year's Sandford St Martin
Trust Awards for a meditation featuring prisoners at Cardiff Prison.
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In a programme broadcast on Easter Sunday, All Things Considered expands on
that theme with prisoners and members of the chaplaincy explaining the special
impact of Easter on the prison.
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Reverend Roy Jenkins, whose voice
is familiar to listeners of Thought
for the Day on Radio
4, said:
"The Easter message of resurrection stands at the centre of the Christian faith.
But how does believing in it make any difference
to a life behind bars?"
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Anglican prison chaplain Mark John explains
how prisoners exchange palm crosses on Palm Sunday, how he washes the feet of
a group of prisoners on Maundy Thursday and how the message of redemption can
make the annual Easter Sunday service the most moving of the year in the prison
chapel.
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But his Roman Catholic colleague Julia Houlston-Clark says that aspects of the Easter message can be especially painful for prisoners to deal with. "Life isn't about resurrection all the time.
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"You have to go through the loss and you have
to go through the suffering before you can know what resurrection
is all about.
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"It's not about quick-fix forgiveness. More often than not, it's a long, hard slog. The long, hard slog for the prisoners is the time they are doing in prison."
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