Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20040728 | Joan Bakewell takes a look at the Seven Deadly Sins and asks if sins are that sinful any more. Vanessa Feltz, A C Grayling and Matthew Fort discuss gluttony. [Rpt of today 9.00am] Then Weather. Joan Bakewell takes a 21st century look at the Seven Deadly Sins and asks if sins are that sinful any more. Vanessa Feltz, A C Grayling and Matthew Fort discuss gluttony. [Rptd today 9.30pm] | ||
| 20040804 | Joan Bakewell takes a 21st century look at the Seven Deadly Sins and asks are sins that sinful any more? "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." - Mark Twain Janet Street-Porter, Jo Berry and Brett Kahr discuss the most irascible sin - anger. | ||
| 20040818 | Joan Bakewell takes a 21st century look at the Seven Deadly Sins and asks are sins that sinful any more? 'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell' - George Bernard Shaw Beryl Bainbridge, Tom Hodgkinson and AC Grayling discuss the easiest of sins to commit, Sloth. You don't need to do anything at all. | ||
| 20040825 | Joan Bakewell takes a 21st century look at the Seven Deadly Sins and asks are sins that sinful any more? 7/8. Pride "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" - Proverbs. Jonathan Aitken, David Shayler and Julian Baggini discuss the deadliest sin from which all others arise - Pride. | ||
| 01 | Envy | 20040714 | In this edition she looks at envy. |
| 02 | Lust | 20040721 | Karen Armstrong and Sam Roddick discuss the sinful matters of lust. |
| 03 | Gluttony | 20040728 | Vanessa Feltz, A C Grayling and Matthew Fort discuss gluttony. |
| 04 | Anger | 20040804 | "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." - Mark Twain Janet Street-Porter, Jo Berry and Brett Kahr discuss the most irascible sin - anger. |
| 04 | Anger | 20040804 | "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." - Mark Twain Janet Street-Porter, Jo Berry and Brett Kahr discuss the most irascible sin - anger. |
| 05 | Greed | 20040811 | Frank Buchman, Lord Joffe, Julian Baggini and Alexandra Shulman discuss greed. |
| 06 | Sloth | 20040818 | 'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell' - George Bernard Shaw Beryl Bainbridge, Tom Hodgkinson and AC Grayling discuss the easiest of sins to commit, Sloth. You don't need to do anything at all. |
| 06 | Sloth | 20040818 | 'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell' - George Bernard Shaw Beryl Bainbridge, Tom Hodgkinson and AC Grayling discuss the easiest of sins to commit, Sloth. You don't need to do anything at all. |
| 07 | Pride | 20040825 | "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" - Proverbs. Jonathan Aitken, David Shayler and Julian Baggini discuss the deadliest sin from which all others arise - Pride. |
| 07 | Pride | 20040825 | "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" - Proverbs. Jonathan Aitken, David Shayler and Julian Baggini discuss the deadliest sin from which all others arise - Pride. |
| 08 LAST | The Eigth Sin | 20040901 | "All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation" - W H Auden In the final programme in the series, Janet Street-Porter, Karen Armstrong and Alain De Botton evaluate nominations for a contemporary eighth sin. |