Passion in Port Talbot

'you appeared so many times in the passion on the bbc you should have been on the credits girl.. — with Michael Sheen' - Neale Howells

Yes it really is one year since The Passion. Watch it/me on iPlayer again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011wjxs/Passion_in_Port_Talbot_It_Has_Begun/

The Gospel of Us premièred in Port Talbot this weekend:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-17596122

The film will also be shown at the cinema each evening from Monday to Thursday before going on UK-wide release from 13 April.

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