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Start the Week and Sunday Sequence
CONSCIOUSNESS and narrative lie at the centre of the Christian understanding of humanity’s relationship to God. Start the Week (Radio 4, 16 March) explored both. In the 1990s, the neuroscientist Dr Christof Koch and the…
Kate McCann and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast, Front Row, and Sunday
ANOTHER sign of changing times came on Kate McCann and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast (Thursday), when they discussed Esther Walker’s piece in that day’s paper about starting to go to church, not because she believed…
Sunday and Friday Evening with Geoff Norcott
ON SUNDAY (Radio 4), a report on the Gafcon Mini Conference in Abuja followed a visit to the gathering by Emily Buchanan, one of the programme’s presenters. I was left feeling that I would rather have had more bang for that…
Sunday, The Business, The Inquiry, and Heart and Soul
BARELY 24 hours after the first American and Israeli missiles struck Iran last weekend, William Crawley interviewed the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, on Sunday (Radio 4). In contrast with the self-assurance…
Israel and the Palestinians, and Worship at Home
WE ARE lucky to have a state broadcasting network that regularly produces serious religious programming. Radio 4’s 15-minute Lent Talks started on Sunday night, and this year involve an exploration of power in the light of…
Sunday Morning, The Interview, and Sunday
LURED to Sunday Morning (Radio Scotland) by promises of conversation about growing up Roman Catholic in 1980s Derry, I found that Zara Janjua’s interview with the Derry Girls screenwriter Lisa McGee was, instead, largely an…
The Early Music Show, Sunday, Heart and Soul, and Understand
HANNAH FRENCH visited Christ Church, Oxford, on The Early Music Show (Radio 3, Sunday) to help to celebrate the 500th anniversary of what was initially Cardinal College (News, 17 October 2025). The era’s political and…
Heart and Soul and All Things Considered
WOMEN have always been significant guardians of African-American culture and faith, but, in the rural south of the United States, it is still something of a rarity to see a woman in a pulpit. On Heart and Soul (BBC World…
Strong Message Here, Sunday, and Sounds Sacred
HAVING the satirist and writer Armando Iannucci as the presenter brings a star name to Strong Message Here (Radio 4, Thursday), the programme aimed at “decoding the baffling world of political language”. This is clearly a…
What Happened to Progress? and Sunday
IN THE second of a four-part series, What Happened To Progress? (Radio 4, 5 January), Matthew Sweet explored a crisis in the actually dominant faith of our times. The interviewees covered a wide spectrum of views, from the…
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