The Long Search (1977)
- Genre
- documentary film, documentary television program
- Country
- United Kingdom
How it feels
A British documentary series where a theatre director travels to different countries to meet people and learn about their religions. Each episode focuses on a different faith, showing its practices and beliefs.
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What happens
The Long Search is a 1977 BBC documentary television series spanning 13 episodes. Presented by theatre director Ronald Eyre, the series surveys several major world religions, including Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christianity. Other episodes survey Theravada and Zen Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and the New Age movement. Location filming took place in India, England, Italy, Japan, Israel, Romania, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, the United States, Egypt, Indonesia, and South Africa. Scholar of religion Ninian Smart acted as editorial consultant to the show, and also authored a companion book of the same name. The series was re-issued on DVD, and is currently distributed by Ambrose Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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