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25/04/2009

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Last broadcast on Sun, 26 Apr 2009, 23:06 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).

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During his ten years as Prime Minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair was deliberately discreet about his religious faith. His press spokesman famously said "we don't do God".

But now, having left office, Tony Blair is setting up the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, designed to bring people of different religious faiths together, to promote dialogue and work collaboratively on development projects.

Christopher Landau has been given exclusive access to Tony Blair and his team as they travel to the USA and begin their work. In the first programme, we follow Tony Blair's battle to encourage a secularising world to take faith seriously.

He now runs a "Faith and Globalisation" course at Yale University, and plans to build a centre for inter-faith dialogue in London. But will his plans amount to anything - or is he too divisive a figure to promote inter-faith collaboration?

Broadcasts

  1. Sat 25 Apr 2009
    05:32
  2. Sat 25 Apr 2009
    20:06
  3. Sun 26 Apr 2009
    02:06
  4. Sun 26 Apr 2009
    11:32
  5. Sun 26 Apr 2009
    23:06

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