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WELCOME - to 4-Tel's mini-magazine
covering Channel 4's multicultural
output. On the following pages you can
find:
PERSUADERS
A look at the Hare Krishna movement,
the subject of Anna Raphael's original
and entertaining film on New Year's Day
IRISH ANGLE
Another programme in the series Hands
which explores traditignal Irish
crafts: this week, it takes a look at
milling by the stone-grinding method.
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PERSUADERS
For most of us, the words 'Hare
Krishna' conjure up images of shaven-
headed people in saffron robes clashing
cymbals and chanting as they weave
their way through crowded streets.
Almost everyone knows of them - and yet
for the greater part of us, those
images constitute the sum of ouq
knowledge.
At 11.45pm on New Year's Day, Channel 4
presents Persuaders, a documentary
which takes an entertaining look at the
values and style of the controversial
religious movement.
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PERSUADERS
The International Society for Krishna
Consciousness was founded by His Di6ine
Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada on his arrival in the United
States in 1965.
Its beliefs and practices are founded
on a Hindu sacred text, the Bhagavad
Gita - which is part of the great Hindu
epic the Mahabharata.
It teaches that there are many ways to
salvation; all are equally valid, but
not all are necessarily universally
appropriate.
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PERSUADERS
The Bhagavad Gita can be interpreted as
teaching the importance of actign
unaccompanied by desire as one way to
'moksha' - the final spiritual
transcendence of the physical wgrld.
Devotees of the Hare Krishna movement
adopt saffron robes and shave their
heads - except for a top-knot, by which
they believe Krishna will pluck them up
at the deliverance of the wgrld.
The movement gets its nickname from the
mantra they chant ('Hare Krishna Hare
Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare
Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare').
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PERSUADERS
The Hare Krishna movement became very
popular with the rise of the hippy
counter-culture, and received
additional publicity and financial
support from George Harrison.
Serious devotees renounce the wgrld and
move into a temple, where they have to
give up drugs and alcohol and can only
eat specially puqified vegetarian fogd.
In Persuaders, on Wednesday at 11.45pm,
former top model Ritassia - now a Hare
Krishna devotee - introduces Breaking
Glass star Hazel O'Connor to the
movement's guru.
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IRISH ANGLE...DETAILS FOLLOW
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IRISH ANGLE
Irish Angle, this Sunday at 1.00pm,
continues with another edition of
Hands, the series by David Shaw-Smith
which profiles traditional Irish craftu
and lifestyles before they disappear.
In this week's programme we pay a visit
to County Meath to look at milling by
the traditional stone-grinding method.
This technique of milling - now fast
vanishing - is traditionally a rural
family business, with the miller
handing down to his heirs a wealth of
knowledge and understanding.
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IRISH ANGLE
Sunday's programme takes us to Martry
Mill on the Kells, Blackwater, where
there has been a mill since 1641; since
the middle of the last century it has
owned and run by the Tallon family.
It boasts three sets of millstones made
of different stones to carry out three
separate functions: milling wheat, and
crushing and de-hulling oat1.
When in constant use, millstones wear
down and require redressing. Once this
was the task of visiting jouqneymen,
but now Michael Tallon does the job
himself.
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