What’s it like growing up as a Jehova’s Witness, a religion that means you can’t celebrate birthdays or Christmas? Why can’t they vote or read Harry Potter? In this podcast, Vicky Lunt talks about her upbringing as a Jehova’s Witness and the

TGKW

Mar 27th, 2018 51m 31s

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Holding Lightly

Feb 22nd, 2018 25m 53s

Gay Watson is a writer concerned with the dialogue between Buddhist thought, psychotherapy and the Mind Sciences. She has a PhD in Religious studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies and she trained as a psychotherapist with the K

Honouring the Other

Feb 21st, 2018 38m 1s

Elizabeth Oldfield is Director of the think tank Theos which exists to ‘help people move beyond common misconceptions about the place of faith and religion in society.’ She appears regularly in the media, including BBC One, Sky News, and the Wo

The Human Propensity to F*** Things Up

Jan 27th, 2018 40m 12s

In this podcast, I interview Francis Spufford. Francis is a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1997) and has authored five highly praised books of non-fiction. His first book, 'I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination' was

On Habit

Dec 16th, 2017 57m 23s

For Aristotle, ‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit’ and David Hume regarded habit as ‘the great guide of life’. However, for Marcel Proust, habit is problematic: he said ‘if habit is a second nature, it prevents

Living Out Loud: Reimagining the Secular

Nov 18th, 2017 49m 54s

Many countries, especially in Europe, have increasingly large nonaffiliate, 'subjectively secular' populations. However in recent years, the extent to which contemporary societies are secular has come under increasing scrutiny. Dr Lois Lee is R

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