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Sep 20 Korea and Christianity
Season 9 Episode 20
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The Korean peninsula is a grassroots church - as it grew without any direct clerical influence for many years. A diplomat brought ba…
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Sep 19 George Herbert metaphysical poet
Season 9 Episode 19
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George Herbert - a gifted orator at Cambridge University and then the court of James I. left all that behind to be ordained in the Ch…
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Sep 18 Rev George MacDonald, Fantasy and Fairies
Season 9 Episode 18
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Hugely influential in the life of many British writers - particularly C S Lewis, but also across the pond with Mark Twain. Born a Cal…
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Sep 17 Adrienne von Speyr - the modern doctor who was a mystic
Season 9 Episode 17
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The first female doctor in Switzerland - she would convert to Catholicism and set up the community of St John with Hans Urs von Balth…
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Sep 16 The Bishop and the Serial Killer
Season 9 Episode 16
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Gilles de Rai was one of the earliest serial killers on record, today he was arrested in 1440 after an investigation by the Bishop of…
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Sep 15 The miraculous painting of Dominic de Guzman
Season 9 Episode 15
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Dominic de Guzman founded the Order of Preachers who were hugely responsible with spreading devotion to the Rosary. He has two countr…
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Sep 14 Dom Perignon, Monks and Wine Making
Season 9 Episode 14
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Now the most famous champagne is named in his honour, Pierre Perignon was a Benedictine Monk who perfected the method of making spark…
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Sep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov
Season 9 Episode 13
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The final novel of Dostoevsky is possibly his most famous - the Brothers Karamazov. Wrought out of terrible grief and struggles with…
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Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading in an hostile environment
Season 9 Episode 12
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Bishop Richard Challoner has been called the most influential English Catholic of the 18th Century. It was an uneasy time before Cat…
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Sep 11 Defender of Slaves and indigenous peoples - De La Casas
Season 9 Episode 11
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Bishop Bartholomew De La Casas chronicled the terrible atrocities that Spanish colonists carried out on the indigenous people of Cent…
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