| LC control no. | n 85133380 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Blue, Lionel |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1930-02-06 |
| Death date | 2016-12-19 |
| Field of activity | Judaism Broadcasting |
| Profession or occupation | Rabbis Broadcasters |
| Found in | His Bright Blue, 1986: CIP t.p. (Rabbi Lionel Blue) pubr. info with CIP (British; lives in London) LC data base, 9-16-85 (hdg.: Blue, Lionel) Guardian WWW site, viewed Dec. 21, 2016 (Lionel Blue, rabbi and broadcaster, born 6 February 1930; died 19 December 2016; one of the most respected religious figures in the UK, largely on the strength of the regular three-minute homilies he gave on the Today programme's religious slot, Thought for the Day, on BBC Radio 4; his popularity as a radio broadcaster--on Radio 2 as well as Radio 4--led to occasional television appearances, including a documentary, In Search of Holy England (1989), and to a string of lightly religious books with titles such as A Backdoor to Heaven, How to Get Up When Life Gets You Down, The Little Blue Book of Prayer and The Godseeker's Guide; there were one-man shows in theatres around the country and two autobiographies: My Affair With Christianity (1998) and Hitchhiking to Heaven (2004)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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