Leto twin, without travail. By contrast, according to the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, Leto labored for nine nights and nine days for Apollo, in the presence of all the first among the deathless goddesses as witnesses: Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea, Themis and the "loud-moaning" sea-goddess Amphitrite. Only Hera kept apart, perhaps to kidnap Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor. Instead, Artemis, having been born first, assisted with the birth of Apollo. Another version, in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo and in an Orphic hymn, states that Artemis was born before Apollo, on the island
Son of God (TV series) and New Zealand. "Son of God" was devised in 1999, and was produced and joint-sponsored by BBC Manchester and the Discovery Channel in association with France 3 and Jerusalem Productions. The show was directed by Jean-Claude Bragard—whose previous BBC work had included "Kicking & Screaming – A History of Football" and the documentary series "Panorama"—and the executive producer was Ruth Pitt, who had worked on documentaries such as "42 Up" and Channel 4's "The State of Marriage". During its promotion, Pitt described "Son of God" as "the most complete biography of Jesus that [had] ever been done". Jeremy Bowen, a