Saturday 18 September - 5pm - Weston Room, Norwich Cathedral
Lecture by Blanche Girouard
The Artists’ Gift: how centuries of artists have used the life of Christ in art
About the Speaker
Blanche Girouard is an interviewer, writer, broadcaster and teacher. For years she has taught Religious Studies in London day schools and for the last decade she has been presenting religious and ethics-based programmes for radio. (Blood Matters, R4 2024; Who Cares, BBC World Service 2020; Taken to the Cleaners, BBC Radio 4 2020; Husbands and Priests, BBC World Service 2019). She will soon be audible on Radio 4 presenting ‘Donor Dads’ (a programme about donor conceived children) and her five-part series on religious art (‘Enduring Images’) for Radio 3 is in production. She has a passion for interviewing people, has published two series of interviews (with priests and nuns) in The Tablet and has recently completed a project interviewing missionaries in Burkina Faso. Her book, ‘The Non-Believers’ Guide to Christian Art’, will be published by Little, Brown in March.