Everyone’s favourite Big Brother runner-up and documentarian, Anna Nolan, shall be returning to our screens tomorrow night (10.30pm, RTÉ 1, January 10th 2010) with a new programme which retraces her time as a trainee nun in the Loreto Order in Rialto, Dublin.

In O, Sister, Where Art Thou?,  She will reconnect with other trainee nuns and priests she encountered during her time in the convent. The programme is a special edition of the Would You Believe? series, on which Anna is a regular contributor as a documentary-maker. This programme will see her ordinary role in the programme inverted with that of being the documented, and in an introspective exposition which will resonate for many at the moment as it casts the spotlight on our relationship with our faith.

Last night (January 8th 2010), on The Late Late Show, Anna appeared with two other former novices (Aisling Duignan and Mary Comerford) to talk briefly about their experience with life in the convent as teenagers and their later decision to leave. You can watch the interview on RTÉ Player here. It begins three minutes into the recording.

A more probative exploration of Anna’s sojourn in the sisterhood, among other topics, is last Sunday’s (January 3rd 2010) episode of Miriam Meets, in which she and her mother, Eileen Nolan, discuss Anna’s upbringing in Rialto, the family’s reaction to her joining the convent and Eileen guessing Anna’s sexuality shortly after she had worked it out herself. Click here to listen to part one and part two of the interview.

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