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Presented by BBC News journalist Louise Minchin and Olympic athlete Colin Jackson CBE, Sunday Life takes the defining issues of our age – issues of faith, spirituality and morality – and makes them accessible and relevant.
Live on BBC One on every Sunday at 10am, Sunday Life is broadcast from a converted Victorian mill near Bradford - the heart of multicultural Britain.
It reflects topical events and stays ahead of the news agenda by investigating the stories that affect us all, wherever we live and whatever our beliefs. It meets the real people at the heart of every story, and brings a fresh new perspective to the important stories.
Each week the loft apartment plays host to a lively mix of news, debate and conversation with the people at the heart of every story, as well as sharp-edged investigations and thought provoking personal stories.
It’s about what the audience really thinks and what real people believe: the issues at the centre of our homes on a Sunday morning.
Louise Minchin
“I’m really interested in the moral decisions we all face - how do we make those decisions and how do we ensure they’re the right ones?”
Louise Minchin is an experienced journalist and one of the faces of BBC News 24. On BBC One she regularlypresents The One O’Clock News, BBC Breakfast, and the weekend Ten O’Clock News.
Louise trained as a journalist at the London College of Printing, and her first job in television was as a reporter on Channel Five’s showbusiness programme Exclusive.
Louise started work for the BBC, at Radio Five Live in 1998, where she presented the main programmes Drive, Breakfast and Sport on Five.
Colin Jackson
“I constantly question the decisions I make as a human being, and that helps me appreciate the spiritual benefits of all religions.”
Colin Jackson retired from athletics at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003. But the double Olympian and world record holder set his sights on a new career—in television.
On retirement, Colin became one of the key members of the BBC’s sports production team and he continues to take part in the BBC’s Athletics coverage.
In 2005 Colin took part in Strictly Come Dancing and made it through to the final, being pipped to the post by cricketer Darren Gough.
In 2006 he took an emotional journey to Jamaica to trace his family heritage for the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?
Sunday Life was commissioned by then BBC Controller of Daytime and Early Peak, Jay Hunt, and Controller of Religion and Ethics, Adam Kemp. It was one of the first high volume slots to be opened up to both in-house and independent producers under the BBC’s Window Of Creative Competition (WOCC).
True North successfully pitched against over 40 other independent companies and the BBC’s own in-house religion department to win the commission in April 2007.
www.bbc.co.uk/sundaylife