Oberammergau
The last programme in the series looks at a unique theatrical and religious event presented every ten years. This is the year of the Oberammergau Passion Play, a combination of theatre and theology, charm and controversy, an act of devotion to both God and Mammon. Heart of the Matter joins in the preparations for the most famous passion play of them all and examines both the commitment and the contradictions, the faith and the failings it engenders.
Against the backdrop of the Bavarian Alps,
Joan Bakewell examines the telling of the Christian story by a community of German villagers. Director Claire Hobday
Series producer Olga Edridge