Every now and again, TV brings us documentaries of such a high quality and of such importance – by chronicling events in history that were of a magnitude that they changed the face of politics and indeed, humanity – that one feels it really should be played simultaneously on all channels so as to attract the biggest audience possible to hear its message.

And last night’s More 4 documentary in the True Stories strand, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, made by Gini Reticker, was one such programme.

It followed the story of the Christian Women’s Peace Initiative in Liberia, headed up by the formidable and empowering Leymah Gbowee and later joined by the equally redoubtable Asatu Bah-Kenneth, who was the assistant director of the Liberian National Police and a Muslim. Read more & comment »