Religious belief
Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson All of these programmes are available as Arts and Ideas podcasts via the Downloads tab.
East/West religious connections
Authors Rowan Williams & Christopher Harding and artist Gayle Chong Kwan join Rana Mitter.
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Holocaust history
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day (Jan 27) Anne McElvoy hears testimony and new research.
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Narnia and CS Lewis
Exploring the literary and theological terrain of C.S. Lewis's Narnia
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Faith, consciousness and creating meaning in life
Philosophers Daniel Dennett, Philip Goff, podcaster Liz Oldfield & a faith museum curator.
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Julian the Apostate
We examine Rome's last pagan ruler via Ibsen's drama to apostasy in contemporary politics.
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Religion and Science
Is the idea that religion and science are at odds a myth?
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St Teresa/Vivekananda/Nietzsche
Rana Mitter discusses three major philosophers of religion and self-development
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John Knox
A life of great drama and religious controversy explored by Matthew Sweet and guests.
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Belief, Habit and Religion
Rana Mitter discusses religion, evolution, neuroscience and history.
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Goddesses
Christopher Harding investigates the feminine divine with Ronald Hutton and others.
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Dark Places
A poet, crime writer, theologian and marine biologist explore darkness.
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Grief
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the role of ritual, laments and how we express grief.
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Early Buddhism, Sheila Rowbotham
Two Buddhism scholars and British socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham join Rana Mitter.
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Rationality and Tradition
Tim Stanley on tradition and Steven Pinker on rationality. Anne McElvoy hosts.
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God's Body
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Hetta Howes and Mark Vernon join Matthew Sweet.
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Links between Judaism and Christianity
Rector Giles Fraser tells Matthew Sweet how a crisis led to discovering his Jewish roots.
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Writing about Faith
Stand-up Frank Skinner and novelists Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi talk to Laurence Scott.
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Saint John Henry Newman
Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley, Catherine Pepinster and Dafydd Mills Daniel on Newman's thought
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Marilynne Robinson
The American novelist and essayist talks religion, fiction & US politics with Rana Mitter.
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Jewish Identity in 2020
Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, Jonathan Freedland and Matthew Sweet.
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Religion and ordinary lives
Tom Charlton looks for evidence of belief from samplers to children's scribbles in bibles.
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Yiddish and Rotwelsch Languages, Nazi France
Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner talk to Matthew Sweet about languages, codes and secrecy.
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Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Landscape in poetry discussed by Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage at Hay.
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The consolation of philosophy and stories
Matthew Sweet talks to Kylie Murray, Prof Seth Lerer and former Bishop Richard Holloway.
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