In addition to the miniseries, there will be a series of podcasts:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b099tkx5
Silence
Slow Radio, Meditations from a Monastery Episode 1 of 5
Five ‘slow radio’ soundscapes, featuring themes from monastic life. Tonight, in the first in the series, monks from Downside, Belmont and Pluscarden Abbeys meditate on the subject of silence, against a background of chant and sounds evocative of the peace and serenity of the monastery. The programmes allow the listener to appreciate life at a monk’s pace, reflecting the gentleness and calm of monastic life. Listeners will hear musings from the monks themselves, interspersed with their singing and sounds from the natural world. The series is available for download as a podcast. It accompanies the BBC 4 television series Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery, which visits the monasteries in search of inner peace, presenting an alternative to the hectic pace of modern daily life.
Each podcast will be 15 minutes long.
There is also a GORGEOUS, mesmerizing film about a young man’s entrance into the Carthusian order in France. It is called “Into The Great Silence.” I recommend it very highly.
If all Christians did what these monks do, Christianity would disappear in a generation.