ST BEUNO'S IN THE MEDIA

During November 2009 a TV programme was filmed at St Beuno's which is to be shown in the UK on BBC 2 nearly 12 months later. 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.

Buy the Big Silence DVD from St Beuno's Bookshop

A religious journey beyond our own selfish ends

An article in The Times on April 30th, 2010 by Bess Twiston Davies

Linking coming on retreat at St Beuno's, with a mention of the BBC 2 programme above and the publication of a book "Time to Change" by Michael Campbell-Johnston SJ Bess Twiston Davies had a thoughtful article published in the Faith section of The Times on Saturday. Read it for yourself.

BBC Radio Wales

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Roy Jenkins, host of All things Considered interview many of the St Beuno's staff and participants in a half-hour programme dedicated to St Beuno's. Broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in 2009.

Vatican Radio

Veronica Scarisbrick of the English Service of Vatican Radio interviews Fr David Birchall SJ, Director of St Beuno's, in an 8 minute programme on St Beuno's and its work.

Broadcast on Vatican Radio April 2011

Earlier Broadcast which was on Vatican Radio in January 2009.

For other programmes from these two sources:

BBC Radio Wales: All Things Considered

Vatican Radio English Service