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Episode 10: David Olusoga
David Olusoga talks to Viv Jones about the making of Civilisations
03 May 2018,·30 mins
Social Contract Crisis
Is the social contract dying?
28 Sep 2025,·55 mins
Neurology
What happens in the brain during religious experiences?
31 Mar 2010,·30 mins
2. Going Global
Alvin Hall explores how gospel music has been affected by commercialisation.
02 Feb 2016,·30 mins
Canon Simon Doogan, Wednesday 21st June 2023
No life on any other ship is expendable
21 Jun 2023,·2 mins
The Cherokee
An animist creation story from the Cherokee tribe in North America
07 Jul 1995,·13 mins
The Jewish Sukkot
The tradition that reminds Jews of the 40 years their ancestors spent in the wilderness
01 Jan 2000,·4 mins
Arabia and the Byzantine Empire
Extended influence of Islam across Arabia and tensions with the Byzantine Empire.
08 Feb 1996,·13 mins
Why Doesn't God Intervene These Days?
Also asked: What is the relationship between Hindu idols and their spiritual powers?
19 Feb 2002,·13 mins
1. Purple Elephants
Taqwa Sadiq asks can a spiritual tradition help solve the cost-of-living crisis?
15 Feb 2024,·28 mins
Arundel's Islamic Garden
In the south-east of England, a Muslim garden symbolises escape from the desert
21 Apr 2000,·13 mins
The role of religious music and how we like to treat selected times of the year as sacred
16 Dec 1999,·13 mins
A church service from Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral's Lady Chapel in the UK
16 Nov 1997,·27 mins
Rejoice: Christ Is Risen
Interpreting the joy of the Resurrection through a Samuel Sebastian Wesley anthem
09 May 1988,·13 mins
Summoning faith in harsh conditions
14 Sep 1986,·44 mins
Sophie Duker traces the 20-year history of the 'bible' of polyamory, The Ethical Slut.
23 Mar 2020,·28 mins
A profile of the Andalusian scholar of Islam described as 'The Greatest Master'
17 Jul 1995,·43 mins
The birth of a new religion 1,300 years ago
18 Mar 1992,·43 mins
The little-known story of the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
07 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Mark Dowd explores how British Catholicism has changed since the last Papal visit in 1982.
09 Sep 2010,·45 mins
Can Tony Blair's Faith Foundation succeed in promoting religion as a force for progress?
14 Apr 2009,·40 mins
Identical twin sisters talk about their different choices to follow Islam and Christianity
21 Apr 2009,·45 mins
A choral remembrance in Warsaw and Treblinka of the Warsaw Jewish ghetto uprising
06 May 1993,·54 mins
A look at how Covid-19 is impacting Ramadan, one of world's biggest religious festivals.
27 Apr 2020,·28 mins
A look at the history and significance of the Jewish prayer Kol Nidre
08 Aug 2004,·26 mins
Why has a militant, violent strain of Buddhism emerged in Sri Lanka?
31 May 2015,·28 mins
The life, writings, and legacy of the Swiss theologian Karl Bart
11 Dec 1988,·43 mins
Pope John Paul II
Views from ordinary Catholics around the world on their new pope
11 Mar 1989,·29 mins
Truth and Salvation
Religious notions of afterlife, and the concept of reward or punishment after death
15 Mar 1983,·29 mins
St Paul's Cathedral
An Anglican service recorded in St Paul's Cathedral, London
13 Oct 1988,·30 mins