Finding Meaning in ‘Lost’
Is Lost where we find spirituality in today's culture? Does a message for the church lie somewhere deep within the island? One of TV's most popular shows, Lost is a glorious mixture of the...
35th Greenbelt Communion Service
We 'throw those curtains wide' when the sun shines; we mope when it doesn't. Pouring energy and life our lives, God shines on us, like the great sun itself. Processing fromt he north, south, east and...
Going East – The Church You Never Knew
We're told that it was 18th- and 19th-century missionaries who took Christianity to Japan and China. But a much older, and usually secret, history challenges our Eurocentric picture. Anders...
An inconvenient truth 2
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the car Increases in the price of food and fuel are causing concern here, and hardship around the world. How can we understand the underlying...
A Jubilee for First World Debtors
Consumers in Anglo-American economies are engulfed by credit/debt. Poor borrowers and homeowners, as well as businesses, find themselves deserted by the ‘guardians of the nation's finances' --...
Speaker(s): Ann PettiforThe Beatification Of Enoch Powell
What influence did Enoch Powell really have in the unexpected Tory election victory of 1970? Did he dare to say what others thought, or change the climate of opinion? 40 years on has he been proved...
Conversations with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is famous for writing the Sherlock Holmes adventures. But while these gave him wealth, this literary man sought paradise in speaking with the dead. His friend Harry Houdini...
Speaker(s): Simon ParkeDark Eden
Eden is a planet without a star, which is why it's dark. It isn't completely dark though. There is life there, powered by the planet's own heat. And that life gives out light. This is a story...
Where Words Can Go but Not Return
Philip Gross reads from his latest poetry collection, Deep Field (shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2012), which movingly charts his elderly father's journey into deep aphasia and deafness,...
Pairidaeza: the Old Persian for Paradise
Drawing on her memories of life in Iran, Mimi Khalvati's poems are full of love and longing, lost maternal Edens and paradisal gardens. Her readings will interweave the classical forms of Persian...
Every Second, The Messiah: A Performed Reading from The Late Walter Benjamin
The Late Walter Benjamin juxtaposes the life and death of the German-Jewish Marxist intellectual Walter Benjamin with the grinding reality of a working-class London council estate in post-war...
What To Do While You’re Waiting For Paradise
How do writers motivate themselves when they know their novel might never be published? What to do while waiting to hear from agents? Does self-publishing ruin credibility? Emerging writer...
Writing My Way Home
Jenn Ashworth reads from her two published novels, A Kind of Intimacy and Cold Light, as well as from her forthcoming book, The Friday Gospels. As all are set in her native Lancashire, Jenn will...
Just Dwelling: Paradise Lose and Saved in Literature
From Milton to Atwood, the canon abounds with stories of perfect worlds destroyed by human folly. Dr Tate explores competing versions of paradise imagined by writers including HG Wells, JG Ballard...
Speaker(s): Andrew TateWild Life: A Reading
Join Rupert as he reads from The Fantasy Kid, his book of poems for children, and debuts some new material. Poet Rupert Loydell travels the southwest as a visiting lecturer, writer and painter. He...