In Our Time: Religion

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine of Karma as developed initially among Hindus,... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. Fifty years afte... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth c... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the anchoress and mystic who, in the late fourteenth centu... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revelatory collection of Biblical texts, legal documen... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic which is regarded as ... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Donne (1573-1631), known now as one of England’s finest po... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest and arguably the most astonishing religious st... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Czech educator Jan Amos Komenský (1592-1670) known thr... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the accounts by Eusebius of Caesarea (c260-339 AD) and oth... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing work of Michelangelo (1477-1564) in this g... more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the form of Christianity adopted by Ostrogoths in the 4th ... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea and experience of Christian pilgrimage in Europe ... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Northumbrian man who, for 500 years, was the pre-emine... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Wesley (1703 - 1791) and the movement he was to lead ... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that God created the universe and then left it fo... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the bonds that Scottish Presbyterians made between themsel... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas developed by the Anglican priest John Nelson Dar... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the range, depth and style of Browne (1605-82) , a medical... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how artists from the Middle Ages onwards have been inspire... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why, in 1870, the Vatican Council issued the decree ‘pasto... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war in Europe which begain in 1618 and continued on su... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope. To the ancient Greeks, hope was cl... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of the German theologian, born in Bresl... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine of Hippo's account of his conversion to Chris... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the event of which Voltaire, two hundred years later, said... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who was Henry II's Chancellor and then Archbishop ... more