Ray Decides to Leave

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Ray's problems in dealing with community life on a remote Scottish island.

A look at life in a small community artificially created on a remote Scottish island for an early reality TV series, Castaway 2000. Ray is thinking about leaving the island. Focus on his problems dealing with community life and the difficulties experienced by other members of the community in their dealings with him over the first 10 weeks of the series.
From: Castaway 2000
First Broadcast : 26 April 2000

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 14-16,16+

Subject : Media Studies, Religious Education

Topic : Reality genre, Meaning and purpose of life, Religion and the media

Keywords : Community life, Harmony and discord in a community, Monasticism, Jeopardy,

Notes : Use to look at how small communities organise themselves. Useful as an analogy for organisation within religious communities - eg monasteries. Explore why religious people choose to live in small communites. Use for media studies - reality TV genre.

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