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Award for Iraq documentary

by Ed Beavan

THE Premier Award from the Sandford St Martin Trust, which organises the “Oscars” of religious broadcasting, has gone to The Boys from Baghdad High (BBC2). It followed four classmates from different religious backgrounds in Baghdad during the 2006/07 academic year.

The Revd Peter Owen Jones’s series Extreme Pilgrim took the Radio Times Readers’ Award for the programme in which he imitated the desert life of St Antony of Egypt. Channel 4’s Once Upon a Time in Iran was the runner-up for the Premier Award. It followed Shia pilgrims from Tehran to Iraq. Songs of Praise from St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney, and The Retreat won merit awards.



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