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  • 14th July 2025: Beyoncé; Reality and The Four Seasons

    14th July 2025: Beyoncé; Reality and The Four Seasons
    Jul 14 2025
    In today's episode, Lauren Windle goes to a Beyoncé concert and contemplates the idolatry of Queen B; Simon Burton-Jones explores how we may be extinguishing reality; and Giles Gough watches The Four Seasons and Dying for Sex to find the most common question of humanity: “What does it mean to live a full life?”

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    22 min
  • 7th July 2025: Lewis Capaldi; Angels and Istanbul

    7th July 2025: Lewis Capaldi; Angels and Istanbul
    Jul 7 2025
    This week, Jessica Norman welcomes Lewis Capaldi back to the Glastonbury stage; George Pitcher introduces us to some Angels called Melanie and Dave; and Becky Ruth writes us a letter from Istanbul and talks neighbours

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    21 min
  • 30th June 2025: Prison Fellowship; Spotless Minds & a Culture of Death

    30th June 2025: Prison Fellowship; Spotless Minds & a Culture of Death
    Jun 30 2025

    This week, Daniel Bey shares with us four things he's learnt from working with prisoners; Beatrice Scudeler has discovered Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 20 years on and unearths helpful wisdom for her own trauma; Graham Tomlin asks what will stop the culture of death that libertarian Britain has embraced?


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    21 min
  • 23rd June 2025: Love: not an order, it's found within prayer and The Salt Path

    23rd June 2025: Love: not an order, it's found within prayer and The Salt Path
    Jun 23 2025
    In this episode we explore love from three very different perspectives: Barnabas Apsray considers Christian Nationalism - is it an oxymoron? Roger Bretherton talks about how 1 in 4 people pray or meditate daily and how beneficial that is to their life; Roger Standing walks us through Salt Path - from real life to book to movie - the story of love against all odds and what it teaches us about ourselves.

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    33 min
  • 16th June 2025: The ABC; Bear Grylls and Fashion's role in diversity

    16th June 2025: The ABC; Bear Grylls and Fashion's role in diversity
    Jun 16 2025
    This week we hear from Graham Tomlin explaining why it seems like the Church of England is taking ages to appoint a new Archbishop of Canterbury; Bear Grylls gives us a personal introduction to his new book, The Greatest Story Ever Told and Alexandra Kytka-Sharpe dives into the world of fashion to find out whether or not Anna Wintour should be our moral compass.

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    23 min
  • 9th June 2025: Assisted Dying; Jane Austen & Politics in Gaza

    9th June 2025: Assisted Dying; Jane Austen & Politics in Gaza
    Jun 9 2025
    This week's thought-provoking selection starts with Jamie Gillies asking suicide prevention organisations to get involved in the Assisted Dying debate; Beatrice Schudeler introduces us to Jane Austen-inspired novels of different times and genres and Graham Tomlin tracks the political history of Gaza back to the Roman Empire and still suggests that only politics can find a long term solution.

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    27 min
  • 2nd June 2025: Semi-colons; Race Across the World and The Book

    2nd June 2025: Semi-colons; Race Across the World and The Book
    Jun 2 2025
    In this week mix we mourn the demise of the semi colon (and all it represents) with Paul Bradbury; Lauren Westwood gets lost in the drama of BBC's Race Across the World and Belle Tindall asks why a book has changed the world (and her).

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    23 min
  • 26th May 2025: "Ordinary"; Third Space and lessons from Pope Leo

    26th May 2025: "Ordinary"; Third Space and lessons from Pope Leo
    May 26 2025
    This week, Ed Chan-Stroud explores Alex Warren's song, "Ordinary" for signs of the fundamentals of human longing; Jessica Norman goes to a Third Space gym and thinks about the cost of belonging and Graham Tomlin was at Pope Leo's inauguration and shares with us what he noticed.

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    17 min