During November 2009 a TV programme was filmed at St Beuno's which is to be shown in the UK on BBC 2 in the summer of 2010. Dates for transmission of The Big Silence is not yet fixed.

Five people were brought to St Beuno's by the film company "Tiger Aspect" to experience a silent, individually guided retreat.

Retreat givers were Sr Renate Düllmann O.P. from the St Beuno's team, and members of the teams from Loyola Hall, The Centre of Ignatian Spirituality in Glasgow and Campion Hall, Oxford.
This was produced by the same team that brought "The Monastery" and has the Abbot of Worth, Christopher Jamison as the programmes' narrator.

Though the concept of silence in the programmes may be more that of the Benedictine Monk than the Jesuit priest, the programmes will show something of the way that a time of quiet can enable people to re-connect with their past and find themselves and God.

The participants are not the sort of pious people many might expect to come on retreat.

Take a look at the trailer and keep your eyes open for 'The Big Silence'.

THE BIG SILENCE - BBC 2

There has apparently been some problems with the title; the original one "The Silence" was taken by a programme about people who are deaf, then there was "Retreat into Silence" which apparently the BBC did not like, now there is "The Big Silence" which is an English translation of the Latin Magnum Silencium of the monastic life, but perhaps has a touch of "Big Brother" about it?