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Faith in the World Week 2017

Sunday 22nd to Sunday 29th October

Who is my neighbour?

From Sunday 22nd to Sunday 29th October, Faith in the World Week explores ideas of what it means to be a good neighbour.

When you’ve got friends and neighbours the world is a happier place....just take your little troubles and share β€˜em with the folks next door - Billy Cotton


What does it mean to be a neighbour? Do you even know who they are? Today our neighbours and neighbourhoods are no longer defined by the streets or places we live and work in. Affordable travel and technology means we can help, communicate and socialise with not just those living around the corner but thousands of miles away. So who do we call “my neighbour”? Through powerful stories and personal, heartfelt experiences we will be exploring some of these questions on Radio 2 and across the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ.

Who is My Neighbour?

World Slam Champion, Harry Baker, performs his poem written especially for Faith Week

Faith in the World on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

  • Clare Balding launches Faith in the World Week. Guests include Nick Knowles, actor Eleanor Martin and Pastor Mimi, who helped to turn her neighbourhood away from gun culture.

  • Muslims and Christians in Britain have always lived side by side. We’re joined by two good friends, one from each faith, as they reflect on a year on tragedy in Britain and the power of interfaith friendship.

  • Across the week Pause for Thought will reflect the theme with its regular contributors with Chris Evans and Vanessa Feltz.

  • Rev Kate Bottley takes to the streets to find out who knows their neighbour. She meets students leaving home for the first time and living in a strange city with people they have never met beforeβ€”what does being a neighbour mean to them?

  • A Christian church in Cardiff has not been allowed to set up a new chapel because neighbours complained they would be disturbed by noisy singing.

  • Clare Balding wraps up Faith in the World Week which has been finding out who our neighbours really are in the 21st century. This week, she welcomes her faith guest, Alex Afnan.

  • Rev Kate Bottley will play the best two personal stories from Local Radio and Harry Baker’s po- em in the show as drop-ins.

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ComRes Poll

People in Britain like their neighbours to be friendly but also quiet.
An opinion poll by COMRES for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ local radio and Faith in the World Week shows that:

  • one in five (19%) of us says quietness is the quality we most admire in a neighbour.

  • Half (50%) of the thousand (1,001) people surveyed said friendliness was the most important quality with thirteen per cent saying helpfulness.

  • If we could decide who our next door neighbour was – excluding family members - nearly a quarter (24%) of us would choose a character from history .

  • One in five (20%) would prefer a celebrity neighbour like a musician, actor or other performer.

Radio 4

  • In conjunction with the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Faith in the World Week, the Daily Service will be exploring the theme 'Who is My Neighbour?'

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