Heart and Soul Episodes Episode guide
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The caste faultlines in Modi’s India
How the Hindu majority in Modi’s India is still divided by caste
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An ‘Encore’ for Jesus
The older women taking vows and becoming nuns in their 50s and 60s.
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How the Church’s role in Argentina’s dictatorship shook the nation’s faith
How the Church’s role in Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship changed people’s faith.
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I became a Muslim after the Taliban kept me hostage
Jibra’il Omar, formerly Timothy Weeks, spent three years in captivity in Afghanistan
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The new iconographers
How the ancient tradition of iconography is being translated for the 21st Century
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Ladino: Saving Greece’s ancient Jewish language
How the language of Thessaloniki’s Jews disappeared
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The killer's counsel
Psychiatrist Gwen Adshead reflects on her faith and working with violent offenders
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Religion in the 21st Century: Buddhism
What does it mean to be a young Buddhist today?
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Religion in the 21st Century: Hinduism
What does it mean to be a young Hindu in 2024?
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Religion in the 21st Century: Islam
What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the world today?
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Russia’s Africa crusade
How Moscow is using divisions within Orthodox Christianity to extend its power in Africa
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Facing death in Kenya
Defying taboos to ease the passing of those with terminal illness in Kenya
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Into the mystic: Irish myths and fairytales
The mysterious twilight world of Celtic traditions and folklore that continue today
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Queer and Christian in Kenya
Esther Ogola meets Christians who’ve formed Kenya’s first openly queer-affirming Church.
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The Sarajevo Haggadah
How a 700-year-old Jewish prayer book captures the story of Sarajevo
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The Right Thing: Follow God, not the people
Frank Mugisha, Uganda’s best-known LGBTQ+ activist, on faith, fear and personal freedom
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The Right Thing: Wolves in sheep's clothing
How nurse Margaret Ruto's determination brought justice for Kenyan child abuse victims
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Israel – Gaza: Can interfaith work prevail?
The projects trying to build understanding between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Queerly beloved: Same-sex love and the Synod
Should the Anglican Church allow and conduct LGBT blessings, and even marriages?
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Finding Falun Gong
Twenty years ago, China began a crackdown on Falun Gong. What has become of the movement?
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The New York Supreme Court's first female Hasidic judge
Fighting to become the first female Hasidic New York Supreme Court judge in the US
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My journey beyond death
Exploring extraordinary spiritual awakenings that follow a confrontation with death
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Young Catholics on the Francis revolution
The Catholic church is discussing its future but what do young Catholics want?
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The Hare Krishna MC
What next for Jake Emlyn, the world’s number one Hare Krishna rapper?
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Poland's nuns lifting the veil
The former Catholic nun helping others who want to leave their religious communities
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Faith, terrorists and mercy at Guantanamo Bay
Former Guantanamo Bay interrogator Dr Jennifer Bryson on torture, faith and mercy
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My sex work and my faith
Can you be a sex worker and still follow your faith?
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr: 60 years since ‘I have a dream’
The legacy of one of the 20th Century's defining speeches
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German, soldier, Jew
Confronting the challenges modern Jewish soldiers face serving in the German military
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Moscow vicar returns home
Rev Malcolm Rogers extraordinary story of faith and diplomacy