Religion Podcast
Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.
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Medieval Pilgrimage
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Christian pilgrimage in Europe in the Middle Ages.
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Saint Cuthbert
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life of one of England's most revered saints.
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John Wesley and Methodism
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wesley's role in the rise of Methodism in the 18th Century
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Deism
Thu 8 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
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The Covenanters
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Presbyterian solidarity in C17th Scotland and its impact.
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The Rapture
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
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Sir Thomas Browne
Thu 6 Jun 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physician with a curious mind in dangerous times
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Judith beheading Holofernes
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how this Bible story has inspired artists for centuries.
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Papal Infallibility
Thu 10 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that Popes cannot err in exercise of their office
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The Thirty Years War
Thu 6 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the devastating war across the Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648
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Hope
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Thu 27 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German theologian, killed for plotting against Hitler
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Augustine's Confessions
Thu 15 Mar 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.
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The Siege of Malta, 1565
Thu 11 Jan 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ottoman attack on the Knights Hospitaller in Malta.
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Thomas Becket
Thu 14 Dec 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, murder and impact of Thomas Becket (c 1118-1170)
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Constantine the Great
Thu 5 Oct 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.
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Baltic Crusades
Thu 24 Nov 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss crusades against Baltic pagans from 12th Century onwards.
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Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
Thu 2 Jun 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.
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Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
Thu 12 May 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his fictitious Popish Plot.
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The Sikh Empire
Thu 7 Apr 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Empire.
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Mary Magdalene
Thu 25 Feb 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Magdalene, one of the best-known figures in the Bible
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Josephus
Thu 21 May 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Flavius Josephus, author of The Jewish War.
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Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
Thu 16 Apr 2015
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Matteo Ricci's 16th-century travels in Ming China.
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Al-Ghazali
Thu 19 Mar 2015
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Islamic thinker Al-Ghazali.
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Zen
Thu 4 Dec 2014
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Zen, a distinctively East Asian form of Buddhism.
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Hildegard of Bingen
Thu 26 Jun 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval writer and mystic Hildegard of Bingen.