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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Fork in the Road - Two journeys out of violence—Fork in the Road
Fri 5 Apr 2019
Rappers with different takes on Christianity
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Young Muslims in France—Heart and Soul Gathering
Sat 30 Mar 2019
Young people in Paris discuss what it鈥檚 like to be young, French and Muslim
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Fork in the Road - My faith and my sexuality—Fork in the Road
Fri 29 Mar 2019
Two writers and their struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexuality
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Fork in the Road - God in the War on Terror—Fork in the Road
Fri 22 Mar 2019
How the horrors of war changed two men's attitudes to their faith
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A year and a day
Sat 16 Mar 2019
Celebrate a life, or mourn a death: what is the right thing for a funeral?
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American Judaism after the Tree of Life
Fri 8 Mar 2019
Judaism divided after America's worst anti-Semitic attack
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Kenya鈥檚 Quakers: Best of Friends
Fri 1 Mar 2019
Kenya has more Quakers than anywhere else in the world
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Making friends with the KKK—The Right Thing
Fri 15 Feb 2019
The story of Daryl Davis, African-American musician and friend to white supremacists
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My son鈥檚 killer, next door—The Right Thing
Fri 8 Feb 2019
For years Mary Johnson couldn鈥檛 forgive her son鈥檚 killer. Now he is her 鈥榮piritual son'
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Faith v America鈥檚 Opioid Epidemic
Fri 1 Feb 2019
What place does faith have in fighting the epidemic in opioid addiction in the US?
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Raven
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Joe Shute tracks the spiritual flight of the Raven to the Haida Nation in Canada.
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Marriage in Israel—Heart and Soul Gathering
Sat 12 Jan 2019
Why is religious marriage the only option in Israel?
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Divorce, Communion and Catholic Confusion
Fri 11 Jan 2019
Why does remarrying mean taking communion is banned?
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Durga Puja with Amit Chaudhuri
Fri 4 Jan 2019
Calcutta takes to the streets in droves to celebrate the festival of Durga Puja.
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Once in Royal David's City
Fri 28 Dec 2018
Singing the most famous Christmas solo as millions listen
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To Be a Jedi
Fri 21 Dec 2018
Will Bond seeks the path of the Jedi and what it means to be a Jedi Knight
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Women making space in the mosque
Fri 14 Dec 2018
Young, female British Muslims want more say in their mosques
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Faith in Freedom: Maryam and Marziyeh—Faith in Freedom
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Jailed for handing out Bibles in Iran
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Faith in Freedom: Daniel Genis—Faith in Freedom
Fri 23 Nov 2018
A Jewish-atheist's remarkable insight into Americas prison system
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Young Catholics—Heart and Soul Gathering
Sat 10 Nov 2018
Nuala McGovern is in Rome to hear what young Catholics want from their Church
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Breaking the Seal
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Should what's said in the confessional stay there, even if its about sexual abuse?
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Heart and Soul Gathering: Birmingham, Alabama—Heart and Soul Gathering
Sat 15 Sep 2018
What role do black churches have in the fight for social justice today?
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Hebron's Cave of Sacrifice
Fri 14 Sep 2018
The spiritual role of The Caves of the Patriarch in the city of Hebron
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The Buddhist of Sri Lanka
Fri 7 Sep 2018
Why is there violence between some Buddhists and Muslims in Sri Lanka?
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The Pope and a New Catholic Ireland
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Cultural Catholics and Conviction Catholics welcome Pope Francis to a changed Ireland
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Ibtihaj Muhammed: A Journey Bigger than Me
Fri 17 Aug 2018
Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first U.S. athlete to wear the hijab at the Olympics.
