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Aug 4 Dr Grenfels mission to Labrador
Season 8 Episode 4
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Dr Grenfel sent by the Fisherman's Mission to Canada's North Atlantic Coast built up a remarkable mission attracting doctors, nurses …
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Aug 3 Christopher Columbus and the New World
Season 8 Episode 3
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Today we remember how three boats left Spain travelling West for the Indies and discovered the Americas
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Aug 2 Edith Stein
Season 8 Episode 2
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One of the finest philosophical minds of her age, Edith Stein went from Judaism to agnosticism to Christianity. Edmund Husserl's ass…
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Aug 1 Aethelwold, Bluetooth and the Vikings
Season 8 Episode 1
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Today we look at the life of St Aethelwold, who rebuilt the church after 300 years of Viking raids. Also the unlikely assimilation o…
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July 31 Mount Athos
Season 7 Episode 31
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Mount Athos is a unique centre for Orthodox Christianity, today in 1913 the Russian Navy removed 800 monks. We look at the traditi…
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July 29 Humanae Vitae and the issue of 'Reception'
Season 7 Episode 29
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Humane Vitae is the most controversial of papal encyclicals, restating the Church's opposition to artificial birth control. It also m…
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July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Season 7 Episode 30
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The greatest of the Baroque composers was a man of profound Lutheran faith, we look at his life
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July 28 The Mernaphta Stele
Season 7 Episode 28
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Today a British Archeologist discovered a standing stone from the Iron Age which had some remarkable inscriptions
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July 26 Padre Pio
Season 7 Episode 26
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The Franciscan friar, Francesco Forgione took the religious name Pius when he entered his order. He lived an unusual life of spiritu…
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July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents hear through the BBC that their son has been killed
Season 7 Episode 27
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and icon of Christian resistance to the Nazis was executed. Four months later his parents fou…
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