ITV is to broadcast a new three-part series on the Alpha course presented by Sir David Frost later in the year.

The series is a follow-up to the 10-part series Alpha: Will It Change Their Lives which followed a group of ten guests on Alpha and was broadcast in the summer of 2001.

The new series, provisionally titled Alpha: Did It Change Their Lives?, looks back at their experiences and interviews them all afresh six years on.

The ten, who included a teacher, an engaged couple, a painter and a Pizza Hut manager, all agreed to be re-interviewed for the series.
In the original series, which provoked considerable press interest, David Frost described the course as ‘a phenomenon – an extraordinary story’.

This summer, he visited Holy Trinity Brompton again to film his  introduction to the new series from the east end of the church.
It is not known what the ten say in their new interviews, but six years ago several spoke of how their lives had been changed.

Some became committed Christians, others said they had embarked on a ‘journey’ to faith, while others said some of their attitudes had changed.

Tony: It’s amazing what God has done

One of the most dramatic transformations among the ITV group of ten was in the life of Tony Bolt, a painter and decorator from Battersea, south London.

When he arrived on the course, he was close to separating from his live-in girlfriend Ronnie, with whom he had a five-year-old son Josh. He was not a churchgoer.

His life was so impacted that his intrigued girlfriend went on the subsequent Alpha course and became a Christian.

In August 2002, they married in an emotional wedding ceremony at Holy Trinity Brompton. They now have another child, Daniel, 14 months.

He said, ‘I don’t need the drink and the drugs any more. I’ve got the best friend anyone could wish for in Jesus.’