Heart and Soul Podcast
Each week, Heart and Soul explores and tries to explain personal experiences of spirituality and faith from around the world.
Heart and Soul is a weekly half-hour programme that has the scope and understanding to explore different experiences of spirituality from around the world.
Whether examining religious faith or any other belief-system, the programme talks to believers and non-believers, and tries to get beyond superficial notions of spirituality and religion.
Episodes to download
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Buddhism in Cambodia—Heart and Soul Gathering
Sat 30 Nov 2019
How is Buddhism developing in Cambodia?
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Halima: Faith and fashion
Fri 29 Nov 2019
Halima Aden is one of the world鈥檚 first hijab wearing supermodels
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Custodians of the synagogue
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Kolkata鈥檚 Maghen David synagogue was once the centre of a thriving Jewish community.
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Joining the mosque I planned to destroy
Fri 8 Nov 2019
Richard McKinney planned to bomb the mosque he now prays at
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100 Women: Venerable Dhammananda
Fri 11 Oct 2019
Called the 'rebel Monk' The Venerable Dhammananda is the first Thai female Buddhist monk
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Husbands and priests
Fri 4 Oct 2019
Could the Catholic church soon allow married men to become priests?
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The cowboy church of Texas
Fri 27 Sep 2019
Deep in the heart of Texas, we find out why cowboy churches are on the rise
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Alabama: America鈥檚 battleground
Fri 20 Sep 2019
Two womens shared faith but have opposing views on abortion
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A believer鈥檚 guide to atheism
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Believers in God need atheists to challenge their beliefs, says a former atheist
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Saving Ethiopia鈥檚 church forests
Fri 30 Aug 2019
With so much of the country's native forest lost, the church forests represent hope
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Our daily bread
Fri 23 Aug 2019
The nuns of The Holy Monastery of the Honorable Forerunner up high in the Greek mountains
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The pilgrim paths of Ireland
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Stories from pilgrims walking the ancient pilgrim path St.Kevin鈥檚 Way in County Wicklow
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Walking on a hot coil
Fri 26 Jul 2019
The Hindu festival of self-injuring to ask the gods for a good harvest.
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A spiritual awareness from space
Fri 19 Jul 2019
Can seeing Earth from space make the world a better place?
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Rwanda鈥檚 Muslims 25 years after the genocide
Fri 12 Jul 2019
Rwanda's Muslim converts after witnessing the genocide
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Religion and climate change in Nairobi—Heart and Soul Gathering
Sat 6 Jul 2019
How can religion help in the fight against climate change and protect the environment?
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Football and belief for Egypt's Copts
Fri 28 Jun 2019
Why are there no Christians in Egypt's football team?
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The wind phone
Fri 7 Jun 2019
In Japan an unusual phone booth has become a place where the living can call the dead
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A female rabbi in training
Fri 31 May 2019
Miriam Camerini is training to be one of the world's first female Orthodox Jewish rabbis
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Kaka'i: Our fight to survive—Iraq鈥檚 religious minorities: Exodus and extinction
Fri 17 May 2019
1/2 The Kaka'i people of Iraqi Kurdistan are battling to keep their faith in the face of ISIS
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Beauty and belief: The story of a Brooklyn salon
Fri 3 May 2019
Step inside the private world of Brooklyn鈥檚 hijab-friendly hair salon
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Pick up your stretcher and walk!
Fri 26 Apr 2019
Disabled Christians carving out an empowering new 鈥榯heology of disability鈥�
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New York Stations of the Cross
Fri 19 Apr 2019
In New York, a 'Stations of the Cross' bears witness to the scourge of sex trafficking
