Ace42X
03-04-2006, 02:04 PM
http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=116&programmeId=39969708&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details.jsp
Facing the Truth
7:50pm - 9:10pm
BBC2
VIDEO Plus+: 701181
Subtitled, Widescreen
1/3
This is a programme full of pain. It's the first of a short run, continuing tomorrow and Monday, in which each edition brings together victims and perpetrators from the Northern Ireland conflict who have never met before. Archbishop Desmond Tutu oversees the meetings. Sombre lighting and tight close-ups seem designed to intensify an already agonising experience, as if by charting every line on the participants' faces the cameras could burrow into their souls. "This is a safe space in which we hope we can facilitate your story being told," Tutu says, and one can only hope that by putting such encounters on camera the healing, on a wider stage, is helped along.
It is certainly interesting, and powerful, and emotive, but is it being engineered for populist entertainment, or a bold effort at reconciliation and understanding?
Clips (http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadband/mediaplayer/players/bbc2/bb_rm_console.shtml?nbram=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&package=4587100)
Facing the Truth
7:50pm - 9:10pm
BBC2
VIDEO Plus+: 701181
Subtitled, Widescreen
1/3
This is a programme full of pain. It's the first of a short run, continuing tomorrow and Monday, in which each edition brings together victims and perpetrators from the Northern Ireland conflict who have never met before. Archbishop Desmond Tutu oversees the meetings. Sombre lighting and tight close-ups seem designed to intensify an already agonising experience, as if by charting every line on the participants' faces the cameras could burrow into their souls. "This is a safe space in which we hope we can facilitate your story being told," Tutu says, and one can only hope that by putting such encounters on camera the healing, on a wider stage, is helped along.
It is certainly interesting, and powerful, and emotive, but is it being engineered for populist entertainment, or a bold effort at reconciliation and understanding?
Clips (http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadband/mediaplayer/players/bbc2/bb_rm_console.shtml?nbram=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&package=4587100)