The Devil's Passion
- Radio comedy drama
- BBC Radio 3
- 2017
- 1 episode
David Suchet plays Satan in a retelling of the Passion of Christ. Also features Amir El Masry and Lara Sawalha.
Key details
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 2017
- Channel
- BBC Radio 3
- Episodes
- 1
- Stars
- David Suchet, Amir El Masry and Lara Sawalha
- Writer
- Justin Butcher
- Director
- Jonquil Panting
- Producer
- Jonquil Panting
- Company
David Suchet stars as Satan - and a bible's-worth of other characters, human and animal - in this comic, gripping, poetic and pungent hell's-eye view of the Passion of Christ, written by renowned satirist, playwright and actor Justin Butcher.
33 AD. Jesus enters Jerusalem to fulfil his destiny. Satan ascends from Hell to stop him.
"Within the next hour, our operatives will isolate, engage and capture or kill the notorious leader of the most extreme, dangerous and contagious ideology to emerge in the modern era, whose terror activities represent the gravest threat to our interests across the region and the wider world.
I refer, of course, to the radical preacher and populist demagogue Y'shua Bar-Yessuf - the man known, by way of shorthand to our operatives, as 'Jesus'."
The Devil's Passion offers an outrageously entertaining fresh perspective - as the ancient story is played out once more, in our modern world of security, surveillance and ideological warfare.
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Sunday 3rd December 2017 at 7:30pm on BBC Radio 3
- Episode length
- 100 minutes
- All previous repeats
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- Sunday 29th September 2019 at 7:30pm on Radio 3 - Series 1