On prime-time television on Christmas Day (surely not a co-incidence), a two-hour special entitled The Secret Family of Jesus was shown on Channel 4.
A typical example of the ‘personal’ discovery genre so popular with today’s programme makers, it was presented by Robert Beckford of Oxford Brookes University, who early asserted that the programme ‘uncovers a conspiracy that Dan Brown missed, more significant than The Da Vinci Code… [one] hidden for more than two thousand years … [that] could rock everything Christians believe in’.
