ANOTHER CHANCE TO SEE “A’ TIGHINN FO CHURAM”
Sunday 3rd September 2006, 6.00pm, STV
“A’ Tighinn Fo Chùram” a two-part Gaelic documentary tells the story of the remarkable religious conversions that occurred on Lewis and North Uist in the 1940s and 1950s under the influence of “Pilgrims” sent by the Faith Mission, Edinburgh.
One of the converts – at first opposed to the idea of revival – was Mary (Morrison) Peckham from Port of Ness, enticed home from her active social life in Glasgow by parents worried that their daughter was being corrupted by the city. Mary tells her own story eloquently throughout the documentary, describing her difficult conversion, and revealing how, as a woman and a Faith Mission worker, she was denounced from pulpits.
The second part of the documentary, to be broadcast on Sunday 10th September 2006 at 6.00pm, concentrates on Mary’s revival efforts on North Uist with three other Faith Mission “Pilgrims” at the close of the 1950s. Various people converted by Mary, including Duncan MacQueen and John Ferguson, recall these emotionally charged meetings in Uist, in which many people pledged themselves to God. Mary was filmed for the documentary in the summer of 2004, still trying to convert people on Uist, over 40 years after her initial success, but this time with the blessing of the Free Church.
The programme is produced by Media nan Eilean TV and funded by Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gàidhlig.
For more information, please contact:
MnE Television, Glasgow
Tel - 0141 249 9999
alasdair@mnetelevision.com
