The BBC is set to use 80 shipping containers in an hour-long Easter programme broadcast from Tyne and Wear.
The live show will aim to appeal to non-religious viewers as well as religious viewers and will air on Good Friday. The shipping containers will be used to represent the Stations of the Cross. The structure will be longer than St Paul’s Cathedral. Councillor Alan Kerr, deputy leader of South Tyneside COuncil said;
“Among the dozens of shipping containers used for the programme will be one for each of the 14 stations of the cross, which traditionally mark the final moments before Christ’s crucifixion.
Before being transported to South Shields to form part of the final installation they will be placed, for about two months, in different areas across the North East to be developed into ‘pieces of art’.”
Artists are being commissioned to take responsibility for their own shipping container to develop them into useful projects for the local community.