Sister Wendy Beckett
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wendy Mary Beckett (25 February 1930 – 26 December 2018), better known as Sister Wendy, was a British religious sister and art historian who became well known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art. Her programmes, such as Sister Wendy's Odyssey and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, often drew a 25 percent share of the British viewing audience. In 1997 Sister Wendy made her US debut on public television and that same year The New York Times described her as "a sometime hermit who is fast on her way to becoming the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television."
Known For
The elderly nun takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of Europe's finest artistic treasures,
Sister Wendy's Grand Tour
Sister Wendy Beckett, a cloistered nun and Oxford-educated art scholar, takes an art appreciation tour across America, visiting six major art museums in this 6-hours documentary series from PBS.
Sister Wendy's American Collection
Art expert and hermit Sister Wendy visits six of Britain's finest art collections
Sister Wendy's Odyssey
Sister Wendy Beckett takes a journey through the history of art in this ten-part series.
Sister Wendy's Story of Painting
Sister Wendy Beckett takes a journey through the history of art in this ten-part series.
Sister Wendy's Story of Painting
Britain is one of the most secular nations in the world, a new poll in 10 countries finds. Levels of religious belief and activity in the UK are far lower than in almost all other countries surveyed across the globe in a special poll undertaken for the BBC. In January 2004 the independent opinion research company ICM conducted a survey of 10,000 people in 10 different nations for the BBC programme What the World Thinks of God. The countries surveyed were the USA, UK, Israel, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Nigeria, Russia, Mexico and Lebanon.
What the World Thinks of God
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the ancient Christian practice of preserving holy relics and the largely forgotten art form that went with it, the reliquary. Fragments of bone or fabric placed inside a bejewelled shrine, a sculpted golden head or even a life-sized silver hand were, and still are, objects of religious devotion believed to have the power to work miracles. The documentary features interviews with art historian Sister Wendy Beckett and Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum.
Treasures of Heaven
Sister Wendy Beckett takes you to Cambridge, England to explore the story of Christ through one of the most remarkable works of Western art - the monumental stained glass Passion Windows at the Chapel of King's College.