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July 9 Brazil, stampede at a Papal Mass & Dom Helder Camara
Season 7 Episode 9
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Today we look at the unprecedent global journeys of John Paul II, a stampede at a mass in Fortaleza in North East Brazil and its Dom …
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July 8 John Templeton and his Templeton Prize
Season 7 Episode 8
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John Templeton, one of the worlds most generous philanthropist was fascinated by religion and science. His annual prize is bigger th…
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July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn repenting in the Gulag
Season 7 Episode 7
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Alexander Solzhenitsyns book the Gulag Archipelago sold over 30million copies and did much to expose the cruelty and lies of Stalins …
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July 6 Mircea Eliade - A History of Religious Ideas
Season 7 Episode 6
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Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor …
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July 5 Thomas Cook, the temperance movement and Package Tourism
Season 7 Episode 5
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Thomas Cook - a committed Baptist and fierce promoter of the Temperance movement in industrial Britain ended up being a pioneer of th…
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July 4 The Empress Pulcheria and the Theotokos
Season 7 Episode 4
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One of the most powerful woman in the Ancient World - Pulcheria was a Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother emperor Theodosiu…
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July 3 The Mythical Kingdom of Prester John and Marco Polo
Season 7 Episode 3
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For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the …
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July 2 St Swithun and St Swithin's Day
Season 7 Episode 2
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A popular superstition linking this Anglo Saxon Bishop and the weather has proved remarkably resilient. We investigate it in todays p…
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July 1 The Boxer Rebellion and the first martyr from Yale
Season 7 Episode 1
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An outpouring of anti-foreign and anti-Christian violence in China lead to the beheading of Horace Tracy Pitkin. He would become know…
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June 30 Mother Noella - The Cheese Nun
Season 6 Episode 30
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One of the worlds experts on Cheese is a Benedictine Nun who has a PHD in microbiology
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