Just listened to episode five of "The Hiding Place" on Focus On The Family Radio Theater featuring the story of Corrie Ten Boom and her resistance to the Nazis in WW2. Please insert your ironic exclamations here.
Now the production values were very good, surprisingly so from an outfit that brings you the truly execrable "Adventures in Odyssey" series, but at the end I think they let the cat out of the proverbial programming bag.
Over the credits they said, "Starring Wendy Craig and Alec McCowen". Now these are two great actors from the UK and I got to wondering, "Is this really a production from Focus on the Family, or are they rebranding BBC dramas through some sort of deal with Auntie Beeb?'
Because if they are, I'm sure a lot of the Luvvies of the British Theater would be up in arms if they realized their work was being sold to and repackaged by such an intolerant and bigoted right wing organization as Focus On The Family.
I wonder how I confirm that the productions on the radio here in the US are really from the BBC?
And if they are, how can we get them stopped?
And let's not start on the sheer irony of a right wing organization like Focus airing a piece like this. I've got to wonder would they have carried the drama if Corrie Ten Boom had been rescuing gays and gypsies from the Nazis?
And the answer to my own question is: Of course they would not.
