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They鈥檙e among the most significant words in history. For around three thousand years, they鈥檝e helped people decide between right and wrong. They鈥檝e guided individual decisions, shaped cultures, and provided many societies, including our own, with the undergirding of a basic legal code.

According to the Bible, the Ten Commandments were spoken by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and they remain central to both Jewish and Christian traditions.
At one time, most people in this country learned them as children. No longer. So to what extent do they remain known? And even where they are, in what sense can they still be regarded as relevant to the way we should live our lives in a world so totally unlike the one in which they were first delivered?

Joining Roy Jenkins are author Ana Levy-Lyons; Rabbi Michoel Rose; Dr. Rosa Hunt of South Wales Baptist College; Stephen Clark, an evangelical minister in Bridgend; Richard Patterson, of the Cardiff Humanist Group and Gary Slaymaker, Film Critic.

This programme was originally broadcast in February 2019.