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BBC TV in the UK is recruiting volunteers from media and advertising to live in a monastery for two months as part of an experiment that has been labelled a religious version of the Big Brother reality series.
But the BBC says The Brotherhood will go much further than Big Brother, and it will actually be a serious documentary on religion commissioned by the its religion and ethics department.
"It's quite a serious attempt to understand monastic life as well as being a personal spiritual journey for those involved," a spokesman told the Daily Telegraph. "We want to make religion more accessible by putting real people into a monastery to see if they can understand life inside."
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