Piety
Mark Tully asks how achievable true piety is. Pious observance is particularly important for Christians during Lent, but do we still understand what is meant by 'living piously'?
What do we mean by piety? And how hard is it now to live a pious life? In this programme for Lent, Mark Tully debates humility, religious observance, duty, hypocrisy, backsliding and the relationship between ritual and pious living.
There are readings from the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, Spanish poet Nicolas Suescun and writer and anthropologist Saba Mahmood, along with music from Anton Bruckner, John Rutter and The Mavericks.
The readers are Jasper Britton and Shaheen Khan.
Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling
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Music Played
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John Rutter
Pie Jesu (feat. The Cambridge Singers, Caroline Ashton, The City of London Sinfonia)
- Collegium.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
For All The Saints (feat. Choir of Norwich Cathedral)
- Heritage.
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The Mavericks
The End of the Line
- Universal-Island Records Limited.
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Carlo Rossini
Praperate Corda Vestra (feat. Benedictines Of Mary Queen Of Apostles)
- De Montfort Music.
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Raihan
Do You Know Him? (feat. feat. Mecca2Medina)
- WM Malaysia.
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Anton Bruckner
Locus Iste (feat. The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Elliot Gardner)
- Deutsche Grammophon.
Readings
Title: General Prologue, Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Published by Oxford University Press
Title: Muslim Teaching Story
Author: Anon
Title: A Pious Woman
Author: Nicolas Suescun
Found here
Title: The Abbey of St. Wandrille
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Published by John Murray
Title: The Politics of Piety
Author: Saba Mahmoud
Published by Princeton
Title: On The Nature of the Gods
Author: Cicero
Published by Methuen
Broadcasts
- Sun 19 Mar 201706:05BBC Radio 4
- Sun 19 Mar 201723:30BBC Radio 4
