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Travelling Light: The Isenheim Altarpiece And Its Influences On Contemporary Art

Focusing on Grünewald's masterpiece, Tina considers the artist's vision as a form of travelling light, a beam of inspiration which travels through time and continues to shine a strange light on...
Speaker(s): Tina Beattie

Cracking Up. Cracking On.

After last year's discussion ‘We Need To Talk About Nutters', artist Bobby Baker chairs a session with fellow artists – comedian Jo Enright, musician RM Hubbert and writer Miriam Hodson –...
Speaker(s): Bobby Baker, Miriam Hodson, RM Hubbert, Jo Enright

The Telling Error

Queen of psychological crime Sophie Hannah reads from her latest literary mystery, The Telling Error. Nicki can't answer any of the questions detectives fire at her. And she can't explain herself...
Speaker(s): Sophie Hannah

Who Decides What Is True?

Some believe every point of view is valid; some believe in concrete truths on which everyone should base their worldview. How to decide where to sit between these dangerous extremes and what are the...
Speaker(s): Stephen Oram

A Theology Of Music

Using illustrations from his mainstream media work, Steven Faux looks at music from a theological perspective, believing that God has gifted us music to both deepen our knowledge of the divine and...

Confessions Of A Bad Muslim

Sarfraz Manzoor grew up in a working class Pakistani Muslim family in Luton. He could have ended up angry, alienated and in an arranged marriage. Instead Manzoor ended up in The Guardian, on Radio 4...
Speaker(s): Sarfraz Manzoor

Mixed Blessings

Sarfraz Manzoor is a British Pakistani Muslim. His wife Bridget is British Scottish Christian. In this revealing, surprising and entertaining conversation Sarfraz and Bridget reflect honestly on the...
Speaker(s): Sarfraz Manzoor

Travelling Light: Political Baggage And The Migrant’s Journey

Travelling Light: Political Baggage And The Migrant's Journey Issues of immigration and asylum are ‘toxic' for politicians. With opinion polls putting immigration near the top of voters'...
Speaker(s): Sarah Teather

What’s Wrong With Poverty?

What are the metaphors that shape our understanding of what poverty is; what are the good and less good ways of engaging poverty; and why do many interventions to alleviate poverty actually make it...
Speaker(s): Sam Wells

The End Of Prison As We Know It?

What do we think about a prison system that heaves with misery? A system which costs on average £43,000 per prisoner per year? A system that seems unable to lower reoffending rates? If our prisons...
Speaker(s): Sara Hyde

On Friendship

When Tennyson met Gladstone they bickered over who had most loved their mutual friend Hallam, the subject of Tennyson's poem In Memoriam. From friendship expressed by letter to affection recalled...
Speaker(s): Sarah Perry

Sustaining Faithful Activism: From D-Locks To Divestment

Siobhan and Ruth will share their journeys in Christian climate activism. Come and discuss how we can help our church be the prophetic voice the earth needs it to be. Ruth helps run Christian...
Speaker(s): Ruth Jarman and Siobhan Grimes

Why Can’t My Dog Take Communion?

After studying environmental ethics, Ruth wrote her debut novel, Enemy of the Earth. Exploring the surprising parallels between environmental activism and Christianity, it mines her faith journeys...
Speaker(s): Ruth Ruderham

Food And Faith

How to eat well in a hungry world and integrate our food into our spirituality. Ruth is a community activist, Christian, academic, eco-warrior, mum, author, veg grower, wife and pig keeper rolled...
Speaker(s): Ruth Valerio

When Certainty Fails

Poetry seeks to find words of meaning when other words fail. Pádraig Ó Tuama's poetry explores faith, gay identity, conflict and story, and intersperses it with anecdote, warmth and humour to...