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On All Things Considered this week (Sunday 20 March at 9am repeated on Thursday 24 March at 5.30am), Roy Jenkins and guests explore some of the issues posed by the triple disaster which has brought devastation to Japan. An earthquake, a tsunami and an ongoing nuclear catastrophe: what are the moral and religious questions they raise?

How will this combination of tragedies affect the way we understand God? And should it change the way we relate to the natural world in which we're set?

Roy is joined by Dr Hiroko Kawanami, an anthropologist who has been watching the unfolding events with the horror of an exile far from home. She's been a university lecturer in Japan, spent several years studying in Myanmar/Burma, lived for a period as a Buddhist nun and is now lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the University of Lancaster

Two of our guests have been in touch with major disasters which dominated the headlines for a week or so, and have long since disappeared. Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths was once a missionary in Haiti, shattered by an earthquake early last year. He's not long back from a visit there, and he joins us from London.

Also last year, floods in Pakistan affected 20 million people, and with me in Llandaff is Akmal Hanuk, trustee of the Muslim Council of Wales, who's from Lahore, He was a key figure in raising funds for relief.

And also here is the Revd Dr John Weaver, principal of the South Wales Baptist College, a former geologist who writes and lectures extensively on the relationship between science and the Christian faith.

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