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Article: a prime-time passion; The BBC's big Easter offering about Christ's last days on Earth attempts to unravel the human drama surrounding the story. Even the Archbishop of Wales likes it. Tim Lewis hears about the making of the Holy Week blockbuster.(News)
- Article from:
- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- March 15, 2008
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PASSOVER week, Jerusalem, 33AD. As thousands of pilgrims pour into the city, tensions between the Jewish religious authorities and the occupying Romans are already running high.
When news arrives that a preacher from Galilee is about to enter the city's East Gate on a donkey's colt, thereby fulfilling ancient prophecies about the coming of a Messiah to free the Jews from oppression, the mood becomes even more incendiary.
The tumultuous events of the next seven days will resonate through the next 2,000 years of human history.
It is also the subject ...