There’s a proud history of mixing comedy with religion – just ask Monty Python, or Bill Hicks, or Tim Minchin. So, as someone who can sing Tom Lehrer’s “Vatican Rag” off by heart, when I saw Radio 4 had a sitcom about a University Christian Association struggling to remain relevant in this apathetic age, I was intrigued.
God Squad follows UCA president Sophie, cheese-loving theologist Phil and evangelical hardliner Kat fighting over the soul of their college society. Outsider Dan – a swanky eco-activist who does yoga in the multi-faith chapel – enters and shakes things up. His actual level of faith is questionable (“Late nights with my twin poisons: Hitchens, Dawkins – shot, chaser”), but while Phil and Kat have their doubts about the newcomer, Sophie is convinced Dan is the answer to making Christianity cool again. In a plot development clearly borrowed from Life of Brian, UCA splits between the Modernisers and the True Believers, and hilarity ensues.
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