Episodios

  • 16th September 2024: Labour PMs & Britpop; the poignancy of aging parents and the surprising wisdom of Deadpool & Wolverine

    16th September 2024: Labour PMs & Britpop; the poignancy of aging parents and the surprising wisdom of Deadpool & Wolverine
    Sep 16 2024

    In this episode, George Pitcher tracks the cultural story of Oasis and two Labour Prime Ministers; Katherine Amphlett visits her aging parents and needs to put on an armour of feathers while James Lawrence finds a surprising story amid the cynical desert of Deadpool and Wolverine's nihilism.



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    27 m
  • 9th September 2024: Inside Out, Wild God and Grenfell's Tale of Two Towers

    9th September 2024: Inside Out, Wild God and Grenfell's Tale of Two Towers
    Sep 9 2024
    This week we enter a world of high drama - internally we voyage with Henna Cundill through the spiritual potential of the Inside Out films; Belle Tindall takes us on an emotional ride through Nick Cave's new album, Wild God; and Graham Tomlin challenges us to see The Grenfell Tower Inquiry as a significant cultural moment to reflect personally and nationally on the way we treat each other.

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    29 m
  • 2nd September 2024: how to find meaning - in Olympic gold; music and the big questions of life

    2nd September 2024: how to find meaning - in Olympic gold; music and the big questions of life
    Sep 1 2024
    This week we contemplate the challenges of winning and losing as Julia Kendal asks what Simone Biles might be doing today; Oliver Wright explores the relationship between religion and music and Silvianne & Barnabas Aspray ask why religion and faith aren't dying any time soon

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    26 m
  • 26th August 2024: paganism, secularism and faith found in publishing and in the Olympics

    26th August 2024: paganism, secularism and faith found in publishing and in the Olympics
    Aug 26 2024
    This week's episode finds George Pitcher hoping that faith and religion are being given a revival in the world of publishing and Graham Tomlin explores the Paris Olympics for evidence of the choice between faith, secularism and modern paganism

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    24 m
  • 12th August 2024: Summer Box Set Special: Summer Holidays

    12th August 2024: Summer Box Set Special: Summer Holidays
    Aug 12 2024
    In this Summer Box Set Special, Jamie Mulvaney thinks about third spaces and when the journey is the destination; Natalie Garrett makes a case for taking a holiday and Roger Bretherton talks us through how to get the best out of our downtime

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    23 m
  • 29th July 2024: Summer Box Set special: Emerson Csorba on politics, purpose and people encounters

    29th July 2024: Summer Box Set special: Emerson Csorba on politics, purpose and people encounters
    Jul 29 2024
    Our Summer Box Set Special is dedicated to Emerson Csorba. He talks us through US politics with a focus on James Baker; he asks what's the point of purpose and how do we find it? and he contemplates the power of supposedly random encounters with people.

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    34 m
  • 15th July 2024: Myth maketh meaning; the Disneyfication of the monasteries and mistake make us human

    15th July 2024: Myth maketh meaning; the Disneyfication of the monasteries and mistake make us human
    Jul 15 2024
    In the second of our Summer episodes, Simon Horobin unpacks CS Lewis's assertion that great stories allow ideas to be experienced rather than merely thought about; James Cary explores the Disneyfication of the Monasteries in Shardlake and Sylvianne Aspray asserts that it's our mistakes that set us apart from the machines.

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    24 m
  • 1st July 2024: the Election, the Euros, the possibility of revival and betting on eternity

    1st July 2024: the Election, the Euros, the possibility of revival and betting on eternity
    Jul 1 2024
    In this episode, we make a nod to the events of the week as Joel Pierce asks if political practice can capture something heavenly; Sam Tomlin talks national identity amidst the Euros; Abigail Frymann Rouch asks whether we may be we moving beyond the secular scepticism of religion and James Sampson-Foster invites us to place a bet on our eternal destination.



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    37 m