Just finished watching the BBC4 documentary “Andy Hamilton’s Search for Satan”
Click here (only available until 7th November 2011):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016ptr6/Andy_Hamiltons_Search_for_Satan/
There were some really interesting nuggets in there about Satan’s qualities and his role. The most interesting to me was that Satan gives evil a public face and that, for a monotheistic religion like Christianity, the rebellious angel as the source of all evil is a nice way to get around the problem of evil. In short, Christianity wouldn’t have been as half as successful if not for Satan.
It also reminded me that our writing endeavour needs to be something other than a retread of Andy Hamilton’s excellent ‘Old Harry’s Game’ which can be heard every now and again on Radio 4 and Radio 4 extra.
