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The Law Commission is reviewing wedding law which it says 鈥渉as failed to keep pace with modern life鈥�. Prof Nicholas Hopkins of the Law Commission explains why the current law is problematic and what changes are being proposed. And given the significant ramifications of those changes for religious weddings, Ed Stourton discusses their potential impact with Rev Bruce Thompson, Chair of the Lincolnshire Methodist District, and the theologian and author, Rev Dr Ian Paul.

Next week sees the launch of two international faith-based environmental programmes: a commitment by more than one hundred faith organisations to draw up long-term plans to protect the planet; and a 10-year programme to record billions of personal stories from around the world. Under the banner 鈥楥elebration Earth鈥�, the projects aim to challenge environmental messages of destruction and gloom to inspire hope and practical change.

Its 750 years since the arrival of the 鈥楬oly Blood鈥� at Hailes Abbey in Gloucestershire. The relic was believed to be a portion of the very blood shed by Christ on the cross. It was box office in the Middle Ages before being denounced and destroyed in the English Reformation. Dr Michael Carter, ecclesiastical historian at English Heritage, tells the relic鈥檚 remarkable story.

Producers: Dan Tierney and Louise Clarke-Rowbotham
Editor: Amanda Hancox.