Investigated by Brian Redhead 10: A New Song
This week Brian falls in with an unemployed carpenter turned preacher from Nazareth who told simple stories, healed the sick and died a criminal's death on a hill shaped like a skull.
Who was Jesus of Nazareth - a fraud, a conjurer, a blasphemer, the greatest man who ever lived or the Son of God? And why, centuries after his body was broken on a cross, do more than a billion people call themselves his followers?
Researcher MICHAEL WAKELIN Producer FRANCES GUMLEY
(Re-broadcast Thursday 10.0am)