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12th January 2026: Change; Stranger Things; Attention and Mindfulness

In this episode, while the year is still quite new, Derek Hughes suggests that real change comes slowly; Beatrice Scudeler unearths hope in the finale of Stranger Things; Steve McMillan gives us a meditation on attention and Roger Bretherton explores the origins and future of mindfulness.

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1 day ago

34 minutes 36 seconds

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5th January 2026: Guarded Hopefulness at the start of 2026

In this first episode of 2026, Mark Meynell ventures into the work of J.R.R. Tolkien (and others) to find a guarded hopefulness for the year ahead.

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1 week ago

17 minutes 8 seconds

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29th December 2025: Graham Tomlin's Top 3 of 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, Graham Tomlin shares with us three of his articles, what he's been thinking about as a result of the political and social events and issues of this past year.

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2 weeks ago

27 minutes 43 seconds

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22nd December 2025: Three favourite articles from 2025

In this episode, as we come towards the end of 2025, I have curated three articles that have made me stop and think this year: Paul Bradbury grieving the demise of the semi-colon; Jessica Norman understanding the big welcome for Lewis Capaldi at Glastonbury and Roger Bretherton considering the role of prayer

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3 weeks ago

23 minutes 25 seconds

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15th December 2025: Shock of Christmas; Knives Out & baby Jesus being kidnapped

In this nearly-Christmas episode, Belle Tindall joins forces with CS Lewis and Dorothy L Sayers to go deep into the shocking truths buried beneath the Christmas tinsel; Krish Kandiah reviews Wake Up Dead Man and finds the Church playing a key role in the mystery; Lauren Westwood witnesses the baby Jesus being kidnapped and follows a trail of believing.

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4 weeks ago

23 minutes 13 seconds

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8th December 2025: Angels; Juries & Christmas Karma

This week, Jamie Mulvaney asks us to consider why we love angels so much; after David Lammy suggests amending jury trials in the UK, George Pitcher uses a Nazarene's trial as a case study in legal efficiency; Graham Tomlin suggests Christmas Karma is contradiction in terms.

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1 month ago

18 minutes 37 seconds

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1st December 2025: MI6; Elon Musk & the price of parenthood

This episode finds George Pitcher taking us backstage at MI6; Sam Tomin asks Elon Musk the trillion dollar question and Imogen Ball tracks just how much it costs to have children

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1 month ago

21 minutes 12 seconds

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24th November 2025: Alan Bennett; Rationality and the Budget

This week we start with Roger Standing's review of Alan Bennett's latest film, The Choral; then Alister McGrath unpacks the terrain between the "Age of Reason" and the era of "post-truth" and finally Annika Greco Thompson discusses the possible Christian response to financial (in)security, in the lead up to the UK's Chancellor announcing the Autumn Budget.

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1 month ago

27 minutes 24 seconds

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17th November 2025: BBC, bequeathing and being still

This week, Tim Wyatt dives into the crisis of trust and asks whether the resignations from the hierarchy will serve to rekindle trust in the BBC; Annika Greco Thompson encourages us to pass on our values as well as our wealth to the next generation and Helen Cowan poignantly explores the power of different types of stillness within wellness and illness that she witnesses as a care home nurse.

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1 month ago

27 minutes 49 seconds

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10th November 2025: Shame, Remembrance and Alice Roberts

In this week's episode, Belle Tindall considers both Jacob Elordi and Zadie Smith's take on shame, and presents her own; Henna Cundill asks why too much emotional expression seems to be frowned upon at Remembrance and the Cenotaph; Jonathan Rowlands gives his personal (and very strong) opinions on Alice Roberts' book Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

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2 months ago

26 minutes 59 seconds

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3rd November 2025: Eccles, Older Brothers and a King & a Pope

This week, Derek Hughes tells the story of how a tiny congregation in a forgotten town tried something that changed their community for the better; Will Fagan watches Peaky Blinders and House of Guinness, to see how Steven Knight shows being needed—not being perfect—transforms people; and Graham Tomlin unpacks the historical significance and the cultural hope of King Charles and the Pope praying together

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2 months ago

29 minutes 47 seconds

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27th October 2025: shifting seasons; Ruth & Boaz and Big Tech

In this episode Rachael Newham considers the seasons and what we can learn from embracing the changes; Giles Gough reviews the Netflix movie version of the biblical story of Ruth & Boaz; Jean Kabasomi takes us through her experiences of Big Tech and asks whether we are being gaslit into waste

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2 months ago

18 minutes 5 seconds

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20th October 2025: a Wild Belle, Sarah Mullally and Defending our Girls

In this episode, Jonathan Evens takes us to Union Chapel where Natalie Bergman's soul-soaked set turned personal tragedy into communal celebration; George Pitcher evokes historical precedent for why Sarah Mullally’s appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury is about more than just breaking the stained-glass ceiling and Belle Tindall passionately suggests that “Defending our girls” is less about safety, more about scapegoating (please be aware of potentially triggering content in this last article).

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2 months ago

22 minutes 30 seconds

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13th October 2025: Taylor Swift; the ABC & the Anti-Christ

This episode takes us from Belle Tindall's review of Taylor Swift's new album, via Jack Nicholson talking about Peter Thiel and the Anti-Christ, to Graham Tomlin's advice to the new Archbishop of Canterbury

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3 months ago

21 minutes 48 seconds

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6th October 2025: Sacraments at Anfield; behaviour at the Ryder Cup & thinking in cafés

In this week's episode, Jonathan Rowlands explores the relationship between trauma and sacraments as he visits Anfield; Graham Tomlin asks whether a loss of an "ultimate" is the reason behind the recent behaviour at the Ryder Cup and Joshua Nurcombe-Pike explores the big thinking that goes on in the midst of cafe culture.

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3 months ago

21 minutes 49 seconds

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29th September 2025: Severance, child poverty & what makes us human

This week, Rick Hansen explores the worlds of Apple TV's Severance through the lens of Blaise Pascal; George Pitcher asks how a supposedly "Godly nation" can have such extensive levels child poverty and Claire Williams asks the biggest question of all, what makes us human?

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3 months ago

23 minutes 23 seconds

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22nd September 2025: Protests; Demonic AI Chatbots & Charlie Kirk

This week, Thomas Sharpe gives us an on-the-ground view of the protests against the protests in Trafalgar Square; Gabrielle Thomas asks whether AI chatbots are demonic and Graham Tomlin dives deep into the event of Charlie Kirk's murder.

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3 months ago

24 minutes 8 seconds

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15th September 2025: nuanced thought; theological debate & the summer we turned romantic

This week, Graham Tomlin suggests we have much to learn about nuanced cultural debate from the writers of the Nicene Creed; Henna Cundill agrees as she explores how helpful studying theology is for compassionate, engaged debate in all spheres of life; Belle Tindall takes a deep dive into humanity's propensity for romance and marriage.

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4 months ago

25 minutes 19 seconds

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8th September 2025: Ed Sheeran's Irishness; Being school-ready & Tim Burton's Wednesday

This week, Julia Kendal looks beyond the flags flying to Ed Sheeran's (and our own) sense of national belonging; Henna Cundill asks whether the Education Secretary's new plans will genuinely help our children become school ready and life ready; Lauren Westwood explores Tim Burton's world of the outsider in Netflix's Wednesday.

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4 months ago

24 minutes 23 seconds

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1st September 2025: Wallis Island; Thursday Murder Club and Voting at 16

In this episode, Steve Dew-Jones finds his new favourite film in The Ballad of Wallis Island; Theodore Brun traces our obsession with cosy crime from Dostoyevsky to the Thursday Murder Club and Graham Tomlin reckons adolescence should be a safe space to be daft, not voting in elections.

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4 months ago

22 minutes 17 seconds