Kent MP Ann Widdecombe is about to wade into battle again - and this time she has atheists in her sights.

She has filmed part of a Channel 4 documentary series about the bible, called The Bible, where she investigates the Ten Commandments.

Her work, which will be shown on Sunday, culminates in a battle with famous atheists Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry, and she also meets a mother who helped her critically ill son to end his life - thus breaching one of the Ten.

It is Maidstone MP’s second foray into this area for Channel 4, having presented a programme on the Reformation in the acclaimed series Christianity: A History in 2008.

She said: "I was brought up in the Church of England. I was sent to a Catholic school. I did, in later years, go through a period of agnosticism. Then I returned to the Anglican faith, and in 1992 I left the Church of England [primarily over the ordination of women], and in 1993 I became a Roman Catholic.

"Inevitably, if you have faith it’s going to affect every single thing you do. It’s bound to."

Her debate with Fry and Hitchens did not go smoothly, and it should prove a sight to behold this Sunday.

She said: "Stephen Fry ranted, rather, and I think actually Stephen Fry at heart is not convinced of his own argument. Christopher Hitchens is a different cup of tea altogether. He has elevated objections to the Ten Commandments to a militant campaign, and on that basis there was never going to be any meeting of minds. And there wasn’t."

Ann Widdecombe’s episode of The Bible: A History will be shown on Channel 4 from 7pm on Sunday, February 7.

• For a fuller interview with Ann Widdecombe, see the Kent Messenger website.