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  • 22nd December 2025: Three favourite articles from 2025
    2025/12/22
    In this episode, as we come towards the end of 2025, I have curated three articles that have made me stop and think this year: Paul Bradbury grieving the demise of the semi-colon; Jessica Norman understanding the big welcome for Lewis Capaldi at Glastonbury and Roger Bretherton considering the role of prayer

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    23 分
  • 15th December 2025: Shock of Christmas; Knives Out & baby Jesus being kidnapped
    2025/12/15
    In this nearly-Christmas episode, Belle Tindall joins forces with CS Lewis and Dorothy L Sayers to go deep into the shocking truths buried beneath the Christmas tinsel; Krish Kandiah reviews Wake Up Dead Man and finds the Church playing a key role in the mystery; Lauren Westwood witnesses the baby Jesus being kidnapped and follows a trail of believing.

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    23 分
  • 8th December 2025: Angels; Juries & Christmas Karma
    2025/12/08
    This week, Jamie Mulvaney asks us to consider why we love angels so much; after David Lammy suggests amending jury trials in the UK, George Pitcher uses a Nazarene's trial as a case study in legal efficiency; Graham Tomlin suggests Christmas Karma is contradiction in terms.

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    19 分
  • 1st December 2025: MI6; Elon Musk & the price of parenthood
    2025/12/01
    This episode finds George Pitcher taking us backstage at MI6; Sam Tomin asks Elon Musk the trillion dollar question and Imogen Ball tracks just how much it costs to have children

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    21 分
  • 24th November 2025: Alan Bennett; Rationality and the Budget
    2025/11/24
    This week we start with Roger Standing's review of Alan Bennett's latest film, The Choral; then Alister McGrath unpacks the terrain between the "Age of Reason" and the era of "post-truth" and finally Annika Greco Thompson discusses the possible Christian response to financial (in)security, in the lead up to the UK's Chancellor announcing the Autumn Budget.

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    27 分
  • 17th November 2025: BBC, bequeathing and being still
    2025/11/17
    This week, Tim Wyatt dives into the crisis of trust and asks whether the resignations from the hierarchy will serve to rekindle trust in the BBC; Annika Greco Thompson encourages us to pass on our values as well as our wealth to the next generation and Helen Cowan poignantly explores the power of different types of stillness within wellness and illness that she witnesses as a care home nurse.

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    28 分
  • 10th November 2025: Shame, Remembrance and Alice Roberts
    2025/11/10
    In this week's episode, Belle Tindall considers both Jacob Elordi and Zadie Smith's take on shame, and presents her own; Henna Cundill asks why too much emotional expression seems to be frowned upon at Remembrance and the Cenotaph; Jonathan Rowlands gives his personal (and very strong) opinions on Alice Roberts' book Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

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    27 分
  • 3rd November 2025: Eccles, Older Brothers and a King & a Pope
    2025/11/03
    This week, Derek Hughes tells the story of how a tiny congregation in a forgotten town tried something that changed their community for the better; Will Fagan watches Peaky Blinders and House of Guinness, to see how Steven Knight shows being needed—not being perfect—transforms people; and Graham Tomlin unpacks the historical significance and the cultural hope of King Charles and the Pope praying together

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    30 分