Heart and Soul Podcast
Each week, Heart and Soul explores and tries to explain personal experiences of spirituality and faith from around the world.
Heart and Soul is a weekly half-hour programme that has the scope and understanding to explore different experiences of spirituality from around the world.
Whether examining religious faith or any other belief-system, the programme talks to believers and non-believers, and tries to get beyond superficial notions of spirituality and religion.
Episodes to download
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The bible, black women and Brazil
Fri 5 Aug 2022
Lebo Diseko travels to Brazil to meet Evangelical Christian women of colour.
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The Deadly Sacrifice at Hawkes Bay
Fri 29 Jul 2022
Shumaila Jaffery travels to Hawkes Bay to discover a story of extreme sacrifice
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How do I explain this?
Fri 22 Jul 2022
Nikita Gill and Anoushka Shankar share their experiences of a spiritual awakening
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Conversion Norway-style
Fri 15 Jul 2022
How Norway’s Christian and Muslim leaders forged a historic pact on the right to convert.
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No country for Azov Greeks
Fri 8 Jul 2022
Fleeing war-torn Mariupol, Afina Khadzhynova tries to connect to her Greek roots in Cyprus
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Faith in science
Fri 1 Jul 2022
Why some scientists researching the origins of the universe still believe in a creator
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The Church's slave plantation: Part two
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Professor Robert Beckford explores the Christian understanding of reparations
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The Church's slave plantation: Part one
Fri 17 Jun 2022
How have the Church of England's historic slave plantations affected Barbados?
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Qawwali: Music of the soul
Fri 3 Jun 2022
The history, influence and enduring legacy of Qawwali music
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After ISIS: Reviving the Jewish history of Mosul
Fri 27 May 2022
Why history lecturer Omar Mohammad is recovering the lost Jewish history of Mosul
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Finding faith on a warship
Fri 20 May 2022
Rev Louisa Pittman is a female chaplain who helps sailors find faith on the frontline
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Kenya's last great Laibon
Fri 13 May 2022
Meet Mokompo, one of Kenya's last laibons or mystic seer, in traditional Maasai culture
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Emancipation, assimilation and Jewish identity
Fri 22 Apr 2022
The emancipation of Europe's Jews and its impact on their sense of identity
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Saving Albania's trafficked victims
Fri 25 Mar 2022
We speak to Sister Imelda Poole in Albania and her work to prevent human trafficking
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Germany's turbulent priest
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Damien McGuinness meets Wolfgang Rothe, a radical priest challenging the Catholic church
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The Sikh whistleblower
Fri 25 Feb 2022
How Pav Gill, a Sikh lawyer living in Singapore, brought down the Wirecard empire
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Muslim and lesbian
Fri 18 Feb 2022
How a young French-Algerian Muslim chose both her faith and her sexuality
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The transgender pastor
Fri 11 Feb 2022
The Christian minister who had to choose between her gender and her church
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From Hong Kong to the UK
Fri 4 Feb 2022
We speak to Christian migrants who have fled Hong Kong for a new life in the UK
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Thai Buddhism: Leaving the monkhood
Fri 21 Jan 2022
Why have Thai Buddhist Monks broken with tradition in the internet age?
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MH17: Faith after disaster
Fri 14 Jan 2022
We meet families who sought solace in their faith after the flight MH17 disaster
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Andrea Bocelli: Faith and music
Christmas Eve 2021
Colm Flynn speaks to the multi-award winning Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli
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Black, Jewish and proud
Fri 10 Dec 2021
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt travels to Israel to explore Black Jewish identity
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America’s abortion wars
Fri 3 Dec 2021
Jane O’Brien meets American women of faith on both sides of the abortion debate
