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Mark Tully asks how achievable true piety is. Pious observance is particularly important for Christians during Lent, but do we still understand what is meant by 'living piously'?

What do we mean by piety? And how hard is it now to live a pious life? In this programme for Lent, Mark Tully debates humility, religious observance, duty, hypocrisy, backsliding and the relationship between ritual and pious living.

There are readings from the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, Spanish poet Nicolas Suescun and writer and anthropologist Saba Mahmood, along with music from Anton Bruckner, John Rutter and The Mavericks.

The readers are Jasper Britton and Shaheen Khan.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

A Unique production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 Mar 2017 23:30

Music Played

  • John Rutter

    Pie Jesu (feat. The Cambridge Singers, Caroline Ashton, The City of London Sinfonia)

    • Collegium.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    For All The Saints (feat. Choir of Norwich Cathedral)

    • Heritage.
  • The Mavericks

    The End of the Line

    • Universal-Island Records Limited.
  • Carlo Rossini

    Praperate Corda Vestra (feat. Benedictines Of Mary Queen Of Apostles)

    • De Montfort Music.
  • Raihan

    Do You Know Him? (feat. feat. Mecca2Medina)

    • WM Malaysia.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus Iste (feat. The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Elliot Gardner)

    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Readings

Title: General Prologue, Canterbury Tales听

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer听

Published by Oxford University Press

Title: Muslim Teaching Story

Author: Anon

Title: A Pious Woman听

Author: Nicolas Suescun听

Found

Title: The Abbey of St. Wandrille听

Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor听

Published by John Murray

Title: The Politics of Piety

Author: Saba Mahmoud听

Published by Princeton

Title: On The Nature of the Gods听

Author: Cicero听

Published by Methuen

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 Mar 2017 06:05
  • Sun 19 Mar 2017 23:30