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The Other Side

Johnnie Walker explores what happens when we die and looks into the possibility of life after death. With personal stories and expert analysis from different faith traditions.

Johnnie Walker delves into one of the biggest fears and taboos in human culture - death. With personal stories and expert analysis from different faith traditions, the British Humanist Association, doctors and spiritualists, Johnnie explores what happens when we die and looks into the possibility of life after death.
This documentary will explore what different faith traditions have to say about what happens when we die and discover how belief and non-belief affect what we do, how we cope and how we face our own mortality. Visiting the hospice where his own father died, Johnnie learns about the recognised phenomenon of End of Life Experience, where the dying often see reassuring visions of dead relatives as their own death approaches.
The programme also explores contemporary society's changing attitudes to the dying process with a look at designer coffins, firework dispersal of ashes and the rising popularity of Spiritualist churches, where people try to make contact with the dead.

1 hour

Last on

Tue 28 Apr 2009 22:30

Music Played

  • David Gray

    The Other Side

  • Thomas Newman

    Any Other Name (from American Beauty soundtrack)

  • Sarah McLachlan

    Angels

  • The Blind Boys of Alabama

    Amazing Grace

  • Choir of New College Oxford

    Agnus Dei (Barber)

  • Jeff Buckley

    Hallelujah

  • Take That

    Rule the World

  • Moby

    Why Does my heart feel so bad?

  • Pink Floyd

    Comfortably Numb

  • U2

    Sometimes You Can't Make it on your Own

  • 顿别蝉鈥檙别别

    Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (Kissing You)

  • John Martyn

    Small Hours

  • Brian Eno

    An Ending Ascent

  • The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge

    In Paradisum (Faure)

  • The Waterboys

    On My Way To Heaven

Broadcast

  • Tue 28 Apr 2009 22:30