TV Review: Jesus’ female disciples: The new evidence – a timely new take on the ultimate boys’ club
THE GUARDIAN
By Julia Raeside
Until now, the women in the Bible have been split broadly into “pious onlookers or repentant prostitutes”. But in Jesus’ Female Disciples: The New Evidence, Bible experts Helen Bond and Joan Taylor are determined to prove that the women in the greatest story ever told have been gradually side-lined and all but erased. Naturally, to do this they must go on a journey. I have long since given up hope that another means of historical TV investigation might be deployed. One where an expert with a headful of facts gets to show and tell their findings without the window dressing of a buddy movie. And every moment of significance being prefigured and accompanied by two dozen steadfast violinists, working their elbows like pistons. [More]
By Julia Raeside
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| Buddy movie … Helen Bond & Joan Taylor in Israel. Photograph: Production/Channel 4 |
