Something Understood Episodes Episode guide
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A Precious Commodity
Fergal Keane discovers that silence means much more than the mere absence of noise.
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Reinventing Ritual
Mark Tully asks how our deep need for rituals and rites of passage is being expressed.
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Understanding Prayer
Mark Tully talks to the Archbishop of Canterbury about his understanding of prayer.
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The Vital Green
Mark Tully explores the many-shaded nature of Green.
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The Extraordinary Mary Ward
Mike Wooldridge on the life of Mary Ward, who helped to redefine religious life for women.
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Laugh and the World Laughs With You
Irma Kurtz reflects on laughter and its importance to spiritual wellbeing.
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Follow My Leader
Mark Tully considers great leaders and the source of their power to galvanise the cynical.
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Miracles of Thrift
Mark Tully wonders why habits of thrift have been lost in a generation.
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Cricket
Mark Tully celebrates cricket as a symbol of an ideal society.
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The Rescuers
Mark Tully explores the theme of rescue.
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Genius
Mark Tully explores the nature of genius.
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Volunteer Vision
Mike Wooldridge celebrates the role of the volunteer with Glyn Roberts.
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Buying and Selling
Mark Tully examines the relationship between buyer and seller.
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Dark Sanctuary
Fergal Keane explores the physical and fairytale world created by the forest.
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A Good Judge
Mark Tully explores how we judge another person's character.
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Charm
Mark Tully investigates the danger and usefulness of charm.
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The Tree of Life
Mike Wooldridge considers 'The Tree of Life', in conversation with Professor Steve Jones.
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Ordinary Time
Mark Tully celebrates what the novelist Marilynne Robinson has called 'the dear ordinary'.
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Homesickness
Mark Tully explores the yearning of homesickness.
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If Only We Could Bottle It
Felicity Finch reflects on those moments when we feel more truly alive than seems possible
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Entitlement
Mark Tully explores the complex relationship between entitlement and rights.
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Weaving
Mark Tully explores weaving as a metaphor for how we should live our life.
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The Currency Exchange
Radio producer Chris Brookes explores the nature of exchange in our day-to-day lives.
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Yearning to be Heroes
Mark Tully asks if we all have it within us to be heroes.
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This is My Body
Mark Tully explores the meaning of Jesus' words at the Last Supper.
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Hospitality
For Palm Sunday, Mark Tully explores the deeper spiritual meaning of hospitality.
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Feast and Famine
Writer and broadcaster Irma Kurts reflects on the human obsession with food.
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Mothering Sunday
Madeleine Bunting explores the delights, dilemmas and dangers of modern parenting.
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Behaving Virtually
Mike Wooldridge considers the questions raised by the expansion of the digital world.
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As You Have Lived
Mark Tully explores how the way we live our lives reveals our most powerful beliefs.