Religion Podcast
Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.
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Kali
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this Hindu goddess in her many remarkable forms
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Karma
Thu 20 Jun 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine on how you answer for your own actions.
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Julian the Apostate
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emperor who aimed to return Christian Rome to paganism
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Karl Barth
Thu 7 Dec 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential Swiss protestant theologian.
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Julian of Norwich
Thu 19 Oct 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval anchoress and her Revelations of Divine Love.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
Thu 4 May 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Biblical texts and documents found in the late 1940s.
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John Donne
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the priest who was one of England's finest love poets.
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Angkor Wat
Thu 23 Jun 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Cambodian temple complex, begun 900 years ago.
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Comenius
Thu 19 May 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.
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Early Christian Martyrdom
Thu 28 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Eusebius of Caesarea and his stories of Christian martyrs.
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The Sistine Chapel
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Michelangelo's iconic frescoes in Renaissance Rome.
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Arianism
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an orthodox form of Christianity that became a heresy.
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Medieval Pilgrimage
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
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Saint Cuthbert
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
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John Wesley and Methodism
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
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Deism
Thu 8 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
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The Covenanters
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
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The Rapture
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
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Sir Thomas Browne
Thu 6 Jun 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
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Judith beheading Holofernes
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
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Papal Infallibility
Thu 10 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office
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The Thirty Years War
Thu 6 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
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Hope
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Thu 27 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
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Augustine's Confessions
Thu 15 Mar 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.
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The Siege of Malta, 1565
Thu 11 Jan 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ottoman attack on the Knights Hospitaller in Malta.
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Thomas Becket
Thu 14 Dec 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, murder and impact of Thomas Becket (c 1118-1170)
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