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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Creating life after death
Fri 26 Mar 2021
A controversial practice is allowing some Israelis to become parents after they have died
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Eighteen years in hell
Fri 12 Mar 2021
How Aziz BineBine survived captivity in Morocco鈥檚 notorious underground jail - Tazmamart.
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The Right Thing: A life worth living?
Fri 5 Mar 2021
A Down鈥檚 syndrome diagnosis leads to hard choices and a complicated journey
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The Right Thing: Saving the man who shot me
Fri 26 Feb 2021
Shot in 鈥榬evenge鈥� for 9/11, Rais Bhuiyan tried to save his attacker鈥檚 life
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Three months to save my son's life
Fri 5 Feb 2021
We follow the parents of a boy with a genetic disorder as they try to save his life
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Malta: The island where abortion is a crime
Fri 8 Jan 2021
Sophia Smith Galer explores the strength of feeling around abortion in Malta
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To Santa from Shanghai
Christmas Day 2020
Unwrapping the myriad meanings of Santa Claus in the 鈥渙fficial home of Santa鈥�, Rovaniemi
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Black Jesus
Fri 18 Dec 2020
Jesus' identity and colour has taken on a new significance in this year of protest.
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Jonestown: From socialism to slaughter - Part two
Fri 11 Dec 2020
How over 900 Peoples Temple members came to die in the Guyanese jungle
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Jonestown: From socialism to slaughter - Part one
Fri 4 Dec 2020
How over 900 Peoples Temple members came to die in the Guyanese jungle
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The Canadian Uighurs
Fri 27 Nov 2020
Canadian Uighurs tell Idil Mussa about those who have been through Chinese re-education.
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Converts amongst the conflict in Belarus
Fri 20 Nov 2020
In Belarus, Alina Isachenka meets Orthodox worshippers who have converted to Catholicism
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Catholic women and the US elections
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Catholic women explain how faith influenced their vote in the US Presidential election.
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Is this Egypt鈥檚 #MeToo moment?
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Salma El-Wardany on the movement calling out the culture of sexual assault in Egypt.
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Russia's persecuted Jehovah鈥檚 Witnesses
Fri 16 Oct 2020
Hundreds of Jehovah鈥檚 Witnesses in Russia are currently being prosecuted for their faith
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Testifying against a Neo-Nazi
Fri 9 Oct 2020
Two friends discuss standing up to someone who wants to kill you because of your faith.
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The US Elections: A Faith Perspective
Fri 2 Oct 2020
What role will faith play in determining who will become the next US President?
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The lives of female Qur'an reciters
Fri 18 Sep 2020
Around the world, attitudes differ towards female voices reciting the Qur'an in public
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Father Joe
Fri 11 Sep 2020
Last year Father Joe Gormley spoke out against Lyra McKee鈥檚 murder in Northern Ireland.
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Faith versus the virus: Pakistan鈥檚 struggle
Fri 4 Sep 2020
The struggle between science and faith in Pakistan during the Coronavirus pandemic
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Fruit of thy womb
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Many religions revere child bearing 鈥� how does this affect women unable to conceive?
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Will God protect me?
Fri 21 Aug 2020
What does it mean to ask "God to keep you safe" in the time of a pandemic?
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Zoroastrianism and death
Fri 14 Aug 2020
The religious duty of every Zoroastrian is to focus on life, even at the time of death
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Will coronavirus change my faith?
Fri 7 Aug 2020
Sodaba Haidare looks at how different faiths will change post pandemic
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Burying the dead in New York City
Fri 31 Jul 2020
Funeral director Clive Anderson has been struggling to deal with new Coronavirus cases.
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Vipassana: 240 hours of silence
Fri 24 Jul 2020
Inside the world of vipassana meditation - 10 days of demanding, illuminating silence
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The divinity of Haile Selassie
Fri 17 Jul 2020
How did the Ethiopian King Haile Selassie become the god for the Rastafari community?
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The pastor and the prime minister
Fri 10 Jul 2020
John Laurenson travels to Hungary where there is a war over the meaning of Christianity
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USA: A discussion about race
Fri 3 Jul 2020
Is the use of violence in the pursuit of a greater good ever acceptable?
