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16/12/2012

Sunday morning religious news and current affairs with Edward Stourton, including reports from the most godless and most observant of places according to the 2011 Census results.

We report from the most Godless and most holy of places - according to the 2011 Census results.

Edward Stourton talks to religious stats and numbers cruncher, Clive Field of Birmingham University, about what it all tells us about Britain's changing religious landscape.

Theoretical physicist and author Jim Al-Khalili is the new President of the British Humanist Association. Edward finds out why despite descending from an Iraqi Ayatollah and being raised by a Christian mother and Muslim father, he has been a humanist since his teenage years.

Apocalypse now? Jane Little reports on the Mayan Prophecy and why some believe the world will end on the 21st December 2012.

After a week of surprise announcements on gay marriage Edward gets analysis and reaction from the 大象传媒's Religion Correspondent, Robert Piggot, the Bishop of Buckingham Alan Wilson and Conservative MP, Sir Gerald Howarth.

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