- Title: Resonances Ralph Steadman
- Date: 21st July 1992
- Summary: Ralph Steadman and his drawings played a big part in crystallising the ideas of the Rt Rev D Jenkins when he was devising the series. In his book THE BIG I AM, Steadman had portrayed God as bloody and vindictive: "you are angry, critical and sometimes snide" says Bishop at start of programme, and next half hour is spent trying to find out why. God, man and middle class politics are put on trial "God is more than middle class theory.. if God were something like an experimental scientist and was calmly working through those sorts of experiments, putting the cost down to the risk of doing it, he'd be bloody". Steadman attacks organised religion and claims that Roman Catholic position on contraception is a case of "mother abuse", the Bish sympathises, saying despite inevitability of organised religion "the (Christian) church is concerned with the promotion of what is held to be the special good of their special members: a contradiction in terms."
- Description:5 programmes featuring Bishop of Durham in conversation with an author,artist,police chief,gay rights campaigner and theatre director.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:HED COMPANY
- Programme Episode:Episode 2
- Transmission Date:21/07/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s