Heart and Soul Podcast
Each week, Heart and Soul explores and tries to explain personal experiences of spirituality and faith from around the world.
Heart and Soul is a weekly half-hour programme that has the scope and understanding to explore different experiences of spirituality from around the world.
Whether examining religious faith or any other belief-system, the programme talks to believers and non-believers, and tries to get beyond superficial notions of spirituality and religion.
Episodes to download
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Sikhism鈥檚 lost song
Fri 14 Apr 2023
How a new generation of Sikhs are decolonising their sacred music
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Clergy in cartel land
Fri 7 Apr 2023
Meet the young men preparing to join the most dangerous priesthood in the world
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Purity to nudity
Fri 31 Mar 2023
How nudity is helping Gwen heal from purity culture鈥檚 teachings about the female body
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My hijab or my sport
Fri 24 Mar 2023
Salimata faces a choice between her hijab and competing in the sport she loves
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An instrument speaking to the infinite
Fri 17 Mar 2023
How did the organ become a vehicle for cosmic ideas - for atheists and believers alike?
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Two Rabbis, worlds apart in Israel
Fri 3 Mar 2023
Meet the rabbis at odds over how Jewish Israel should be.
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Coming out of the If谩 closet
Fri 24 Feb 2023
One man鈥檚 conversion to African spirituality and how his Christian family reacted
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Stripped of my spirituality
Fri 17 Feb 2023
How Native Americans forced into Church boarding schools are reclaiming their spirituality
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The cost of being an atheist in Nigeria
Fri 10 Feb 2023
When a Nigerian atheist criticises Islam online, he鈥檚 left facing 24 years in jail
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The Right Thing: Framed by my brother
Fri 3 Feb 2023
Floyd Bledsoe鈥檚 Christian forgiveness was tested when his brother accused him of murder
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The Right Thing: Opposing sexual violence as a weapon of war
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Denis Mukwege, the doctor and Christian who saves women injured by sexual violence
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The Viking priest
Fri 20 Jan 2023
脕satr煤 is Iceland鈥檚 fastest growing faith, but it is being hijacked by white supremacists
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The battle for souls in Nepal
Fri 13 Jan 2023
Meet the controversial Korean missionaries driving the growth of Christianity in Nepal
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Pope Benedict XVI: A life and legacy
Fri 6 Jan 2023
To mark the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Colm Flynn explores his life and legacy.
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Thich Nhat Hanh鈥檚 censored legacy
Fri 30 Dec 2022
How a monk known as the father of mindfulness became a controversial figure in Vietnam
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Christmas with the cooking priest
Fri 23 Dec 2022
How Fr Leo Patalinghug is changing people's 'hearts and minds' through their stomach
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The Iran protests
Fri 16 Dec 2022
Three Iranian women discuss religion, personal faith and the struggle for independence
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Poland's Jews: Caught between, never home
Fri 9 Dec 2022
What is it like to be a third-generation Jew in present-day Poland?
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Arizona's desert crosses
Fri 2 Dec 2022
The artist planting crosses in the desert in Arizona to memorialise dead migrants.
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Turtle Island and the Black Snake
Fri 25 Nov 2022
The native Americans fighting to protect their traditions threatened by an oil pipeline
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One scoop or two
Fri 18 Nov 2022
When Annie Nicholson lost her family, an ice cream van gave her a way to cope with grief
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Dying in Varanasi
Fri 11 Nov 2022
A journey to a sacred city where some pilgrims go for their final days
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Me, my autism and cults
Fri 4 Nov 2022
'Cult survivor' Richard Turner explores the link between neurodivergence and cults
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Diwali in Leicester
Fri 21 Oct 2022
The English city of Leicester hosts the largest Diwali celebrations outside India
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From riches to religion
Fri 14 Oct 2022
We meet Patrick van der Vorst, who gave up his business and became a priest
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God and hip-hop
Fri 30 Sep 2022
Swarzy Macaly asks why young rappers aren't quick to own the title Christian rapper?
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Spiritualism and the soul
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Saskia Masaun talks to mediums as she delves deeper into her spiritualist faith
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Green Islam
Fri 26 Aug 2022
How Muslims are trying to heed the call in the Quran to be better guardians of nature
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Hindus, hate and hashtags
Fri 19 Aug 2022
Vishva Samani speaks to young Hindus on 'Hinduphobia' and the increase of online hate
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The last Afghan Sikhs
Fri 12 Aug 2022
Kawoon Khamoosh speaks to Sikhs who have been forced to leave Afghanistan in recent years
