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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Fighting Prejudice in Eudy鈥檚 Name
Fri 3 Aug 2018
One mother's fight to change views on homosexuality in South Africa.
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Unearthing the Past in Srebrenica
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Thousands were killed in the war in Bosnia, remains are still being found and re-buried
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Stepping on Bones - Solovki and Russia's Past
Fri 20 Jul 2018
How Russia鈥檚 once most sacred place struggles to restore its former glory.
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God's Word at the World's Borders
Fri 13 Jul 2018
As President Trump visits Europe the religious argument for and against immigration rages
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Uzbekistan: The Country of a Hundred Shrines
Fri 29 Jun 2018
How Uzbekistan is using its famous shrines to boost tourism and fight radical Islam.
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Uluru: Reclaiming Creation Stories
Fri 8 Jun 2018
What is the spiritual importance of Uluru to Anangu Aborigines?
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Canada's Search for a Papal Apology
Fri 18 May 2018
Pope Francis refuses to apologise for abuse in Canadian church-run boarding schools
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Faith Under Fire
Fri 11 May 2018
Shot and killed as they prayed in his church, Pastor Frank has had to rebuild his parish
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Morocco's Jews: Hospitality or Hostility?
Fri 4 May 2018
The ancient and complex relationship between Muslims and Jews in Morocco
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Ageing with Grace
Fri 27 Apr 2018
The Nun Study is a ground-breaking longitudinal study into Alzheimer鈥檚 disease
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Crossing Divides: The Sacred Legitimisation to Fight
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Indonesia鈥檚 former child soldiers who have become agents of peace
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Faith and Healing
Fri 13 Apr 2018
Caroline Wyatt has MS. She explores how faith helps others facing chronic illness.
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My Life and Faith in Jerusalem
Fri 30 Mar 2018
Living and praying in Jerusalem, the world鈥檚 most religiously contentious city
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Faith in Freedom: Shahbaz Taseer—Faith in Freedom
Fri 16 Mar 2018
Shahbaz Taseer talks about how his faith sustained him during his imprisonment
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Faith in Freedom: Dr Sina Hakiman—Faith in Freedom
Fri 9 Mar 2018
Dr Sina Hakiman talks about how his faith sustained him during imprisonment in Iran
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Faith in Freedom: Ingrid Betancourt—Faith in Freedom
Fri 2 Mar 2018
Ingrid Betancourt was held hostage in the Amazon jungle for more than six years
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Escaping 'America鈥檚 Most Hated Family'
Fri 23 Feb 2018
Libby Phelps鈥� story of how she left the Westboro Baptist Church
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The Right Thing: Life or Death in the DRC—The Right Thing
Fri 26 Jan 2018
The difficult choice of saving 32 widows and orphans or evacuating 112 Tutsi survivors
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Finding Shelter In Germany's Cities of Refuge
Fri 12 Jan 2018
Germany鈥檚 Christians are controversially giving refugees sanctuary in their churches.
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Preaching Across the Divide
Fri 5 Jan 2018
Pastor Jesse Ferguson and his parish, which straddles the US/Mexican border.
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Iceland's Dark Lullabies
Fri 29 Dec 2017
Gryla the child-eating hag and other ancient characters looking for naughty children
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The Icon Painters of Bethlehem
Fri 22 Dec 2017
The lives of Palestinian Christians are being transformed by this ancient spiritual art
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Christianity and White Supremacy in Charlottesville
Fri 15 Dec 2017
The faith response to Alt-Right protesters in Charlottesville USA
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Eritrea to Huddersfield
Fri 8 Dec 2017
Pastor Daniel Habtey had to flee his native Eritrea because of his Christian faith
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New Life with Old Belief
Fri 24 Nov 2017
Old Believers are returning to Russia to practice their faith
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Being Muslim in Manchester - One Love?
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Six months after the arena attack, has faith in We Love Manchester survived?
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Jesus Lived in the Townships
Fri 10 Nov 2017
Why has Cape Town Pastor Xola Skosana rejected his Christian faith?
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Africa鈥檚 Mother—500th Anniversary of the Reformation
Fri 27 Oct 2017
Mercy Amba Oduyoye uses her faith to challenge many of the practices in African society
