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• Dementia, Faith and Identity

  Sun, 27 May 12

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  It affects 1 in 3 of us over the age of 65, and is arguably one of the most feared illnesses of our time. As Dementia Awareness Week comes to a close, Peter Baker explores some of the issues and questions which are raised for faith by Alzheimers and other dementias. How much of our personality can survive the ravages of the disease, or do we more truly become ourselves as our intellectual capacity declines? Can religious faith help a person endure the condition? And is there any place for laughter in all of this?

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• God & The Present Moment

  Sun, 20 May 12

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  Peter Baker meets Christian contemplative Simon Small who talks about the mysteries of existence and finding God in the present moment.

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• Mary's Month

  Sun, 13 May 12

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  The Virgin Mary has inspired great music, art, and poetry. Young girls compete eagerly to be cast as her in school nativity plays, and her statue can inspire intense devotion. For Roman Catholics, May is the month of Mary. But what’s her continuing significance for today’s world? Does she still get too much attention, or too little? Roy Jenkins discusses the place of Mary in contemporary Christianity with Dr Sarah Jane Boss, Director of the Centre for Marian Studies at RoehamptonUniversity, Catholic TV producer Angela Graham, and Jonathan Stephen, Principle of the Wales Evangelical School of Theology.

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• If You Sit Very Still - Marian Partington

  Sun, 6 May 12

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  Is it possible to salvage anything positive from a terrible, brutal murder? In 1973 Marian Partington's younger sister Lucy went missing. Years later the truth emerged: she had fallen victim to Fred and Rosemary West. In this programme Roy Jenkins meets Marian at her Mid-Wales home to discuss her journey of healing through prayer and meditation, drawing on Quaker and Buddhist practices.

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• House of Lords Reform

  Sun, 29 Apr 12

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  ‘A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed’. That’s how Lloyd George described the House of Lords a century or more ago. A great deal has changed since then, but is it enough? Do we still need Church of England bishops to help make our laws? And how would we go about appointing members of other faiths? Roy Jenkins explores the issues with a distinguished panel including Baroness Ilora Finlay, Lord Leslie Griffiths, Saleem Kidwai of the Muslim Council of Wales, and Simon Barrow from the think tank Ekklesia

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