Heart and Soul Podcast
Each week, Heart and Soul explores and tries to explain personal experiences of spirituality and faith from around the world.
Heart and Soul is a weekly half-hour programme that has the scope and understanding to explore different experiences of spirituality from around the world.
Whether examining religious faith or any other belief-system, the programme talks to believers and non-believers, and tries to get beyond superficial notions of spirituality and religion.
Episodes to download
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Turning of the bones
Fri 26 Nov 2021
A Madagascan family share their Famadihana tradition, the turning of the bones
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The hidden faiths of Northern Ireland
Fri 19 Nov 2021
What is life like for people from outside the Catholic-Protestant divide?
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Lipa Schmelzer: The Jewish Lady Gaga
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Lipa Schmeltzer is a star in the world of Jewish music, but not with traditional music
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COP26: Faith and the environment
Fri 5 Nov 2021
Rajeev Gupta speaks to climate activists driven by their faith
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Getting married the Nigerian way
Fri 8 Oct 2021
The sounds, beats and meanings of a Yoruba engagement ceremony
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The Myanmar mission
Fri 1 Oct 2021
The American Christian family supporting the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar
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Rebuilding Ise
Fri 24 Sep 2021
The sacred Ise Jingu shrine that has been rebuilt every 20 years for the past 1300 years
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The Pope's astronomer
Fri 17 Sep 2021
A visit to the Vatican Observatory to hear about its fascinating history
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Ground Zero for God
Fri 10 Sep 2021
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11 we hear how it affected the faith of three people
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The Taliban wanted me dead
Fri 3 Sep 2021
The Afghan female judge forced by the Taliban to flee to the UK.
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Should I take the knee?
Fri 23 Jul 2021
On the opening day of the Olympics will athletes take the knee and for what reasons?
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The Uighur poets
Fri 16 Jul 2021
The Muslim Uighurs using poetry as support and resistance in the face of persecution
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Doping, diving and God
Fri 9 Jul 2021
How can a champion thank God for a win if they have taken performance enhancing drugs?
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Sex, Christianity and purity
Fri 2 Jul 2021
Evangelical Christians who pledge to remain 鈥榩ure鈥� by abstaining from sex before marriage
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Finding my Hinduism
Fri 25 Jun 2021
A journey of self-discovery challenging what Hinduism means in the modern era
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Ministering behind bars
Fri 11 Jun 2021
The religious leaders working to rehabilitate prisoners through faith
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The schools that chain boys
Fri 4 Jun 2021
The Islamic schools in Sudan where children are routinely shackled and beaten
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George Floyd: One year on
Fri 28 May 2021
A discussion on the Christian response to George Floyd's murder a year on from his death
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Bob Dylan: Born again
Fri 21 May 2021
How Bob Dylan鈥檚 overlooked Christian gospel period shocked and inspired the world
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Cardinal Pell
Fri 14 May 2021
The Catholic leader freed after overturning a conviction answers questions from Colm Flynn
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Black Jewish Lives Matter
Fri 7 May 2021
Amie Liebowitz looks at stories of black Jewish American activists and their lives.
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France and its faltering relationship with Islam
Fri 30 Apr 2021
John Laurenson meets people on both sides of a fractious debate for Muslims in France
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Prince belong Vanuatu
Fri 23 Apr 2021
The villagers who believe Prince Philip is returning to his ancestral home on their island
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Modern Midrash
Fri 9 Apr 2021
Michael Goldfarb explores being Jewish today through the ancient practice of Midrash.
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Pope Francis in Iraq: The historic pilgrimage
Fri 2 Apr 2021
Colm Flynn talks to Iraqi Christians and Muslims who have come out to welcome Pope Francis
