Synopsis
Students discuss questions of heaven, hell and if there is an afterlife.
- Programme: A Question of Faith
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Religious Education | Christianity | Life and death | The value of human life
Licence: ERA Licence required
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
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