History Repeats Itself and Can Still Be Distorted to Brew Hatred
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Pilate: the Man Who Killed Christ Channel 4, 4.55pm (Saturday) Nelson Mandela: Accused BBC4, 9.00pm The people are in rebellion. Their land, strategically important, is occupied. Religious fundamentalism and racial hatred scar daily life. Their militarist rulers fear revolution. Anyone who opposes the authorities is deemed to be a terrorist and dealt with accordingly.
No, not Iraq, though it might as well be. With the scenes from Falluja and Baghdad as a kind of background commentary, this Easter's TV has produced a strange mosaic, like a visual parable on suffering and liberation, whether in Judea in the first century or South Africa in the twentieth. Some things, it is safe to say, never change.See the full content of this document
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History Repeats Itself and Can Still Be Distorted to Brew Hatred
Channel Four's central contribution to the holiday was more historical than theolo-gical. The Man Who Killed Christ awarded itself a melodramatic title, but one, as it turne...
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