Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio Ulster,50 mins

Forgiveness, Consumerism vs Nature and the Keening Tradition

Everyday Ethics

Available for over a year

Michaella McCollum came back to Ireland this week after being released from a Peru prison earlier this year. She returned to a barrage of media attention and condemnation. The Reverend Cheryl Meban looks at the wider issues surrounding this story - are women not as easily forgiven as men? Fr Sean McDonagh, Professor Jane Falkingham and the Reverend Chris Hudson debate another hot issue - how consumerism is eating up the earth's resources faster than ever - but can we really fix the environment if we don't control our reproduction levels? And crying out for lost souls - Marie-Louise Muir and Conor McKay explore why the sound of keening is no longer heard.

Programme Website
More episodes