Shirley du boulay

  • Shirley du Boulay (4 March 1933 – 7 March 2023) was a British author and biographer, resident of Oxford.
  • Shirley du Boulay was a British author and biographer, resident of Oxford.
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    A Silent Melody

    ‘We are, whether we like it or not, religious animals, who started to worship frakt early in our existence and who were creating religions as we painted the walls of our caves. We, the human race, are a God-seeking people.’

    As an acclaimed producer of religious documentaries for the BBC, then a leading biographer of religious figures including Desmond Tutu and Cicely Saunders, Shirley du Boulay has been at the centre of most of the major religious and spiritual movements of the last 50 years - her insight into both personal and organised belief is matched by few.

    A Silent Melody is an honest and elegant utforskning of our spiritual natur, written in the struktur of a personal memoir.

    Shirley du Boulay was for twelve years a television producer in the religious department of the BBC. She resigned in 1978 and has since written several books, including one on pilgrimage and biographies of Desmond Tutu, Dame Cicely Saunders, St Teresa of Avila, Bede Griffiths and
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    Shirley du Boulay

    British author and biographer

    Shirley du Boulay (4 March 1933 – 7 March 2023) was a British author and biographer, resident of Oxford.[1][2]

    Educated at Downe House School and the Royal College of Music, she embarked on a career with the BBC in 1954, initially as a studio manager, then becoming a programme producer of Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour'. She moved to television and specialized in religious programming.

    She resigned from the BBC in 1978, and started to work as an author. Her biographical subjects tend to be individuals who have taken a spiritual journey of their own, and whose subsequent influence has been important.

    She was married to the former Jesuit priest and columnist for The Tablet, John Harriott, until his death at the end of 1990.

    Her interests included psychology, music, walking, gardening and meditation.[3][4] She was a patron of the Prison Phoenix Trust and a Trustee of the Oxford Zendo.

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    Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths


    Considered by many to be one of the great religious figures of the twentieth century, Bede Griffiths will gain even more recognition with Shirley du Boulays definitive biography. Bede Griffiths was well known during his lifetime for his efforts to harmonise the spiritual practices of East and West, but the full range of his influence is only just becoming widely appreciated. In this standard biography of his life, published in paperback in time for the 10th anniversary of his death, Shirley du Boulay shows his transformation from an idealistic, highly intelligent English schoolboy into a man of profound wisdom who was revered by many as a holy man and a living saint. After a long and eventful journey, often filled with controversy and anguish, Griffiths eventually found attained a spiritual wholeness at the Shantivanam ashram in India that is granted to few. It enabled him to express in simple and direct terms the underlying uni