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The Plain People

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A Portrait of the Amish Joe and Lavina Beachy live in the materialistic USA but go to church in a horse and buggy, burn oil lamps and spurn anything 'worldly'.
Bernard Jackson visits the Beachys and other members of the normally private and wary Amish community in Sugar
Creek, Ohio, and for a week lives their plain life. What motivates these Christians to forgo all the comforts and conveniences of modern technology? Are the Amish eccentric left-overs from a romanticised past, or do they display a soundness of faith that enables them to 'live for heaven'?
Producer JOHN NEWBURY
(Repeatedon Wednesday at 11.0am)
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Contributors

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Amish Joe
Unknown:
Lavina Beachy
Unknown:
Bernard Jackson
Producer:
John Newbury
Source: Radio Times

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