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june 2008 The no-fly Bishop – one year-onMark Dowd catches up with the Bishop of London a year after the cleric’s pledge on-camera to boycott air travel
It’s known in the TV trade as “the doorstep”: sidling up to someone with the camera on your shoulder and questioning them when they are least expecting it. It’s a technique that television presenters mainly reserve for evasive politicians, certainly not esteemed bishops in the Church of England.
The scene was the Grosvenor Chapel in London’s Mayfair on the day of a Stop Climate Chaos Rally in November 2006. As Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, emerged after the “Cut the Carbon” service organised by Operation Noah, I stepped forward to film for my documentary God is Green, which was screened on Channel 4 a few months later. The camera’s recording equipment whirred into action.
This article is continued in the June 08 edition of Reform.
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