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June 19 Lord Acton - Power corrupts
Season 6 Episode 19
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One of the most intellectually interesting figures of the 19th Century in the UK. A Catholic Historian who specialised in liberty and had a profound influence on Gladstone
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June 18 Laudato Si
Season 6 Episode 18
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Laudato Si was a ground breaking encyclical from Pope Francis on the call of the poor and the call of the planet. We look at how it stands in the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching
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June 17 The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Season 6 Episode 17
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Today the Methodist Lay Preacher George Loveless returned from exile in Tasmania after being pardoned by the British Government. One of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, this is his story.
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June 16 Lead Kindly Light - John Henry Newman
Season 6 Episode 16
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A hymn that became an international favourite and used at times of crisis, started on a becalmed boat between Italy and France. We look at how it was written and who wrote it - John Hen…
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June 15 Magna Carta & Bishop Stephen Langton
Season 6 Episode 15
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Getting the tyrannical King John to sign the Magna Carta was a huge moment for individual rights (of barons). By curtailing tyrannical power it laid the foundations for liberty. Down t…
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June 14 The Hungarian Church defies the Communists
Season 6 Episode 14
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Church Bells rang out all over the country today to defy the restriction on religious activities enforced by the Communists. Stalin had gone back on the promises made at the Yalta confe…
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June 13 Downs Syndrome and Dr Lejeune
Season 6 Episode 13
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Dr Jerome Lejeune was the first to identify the double chromosome that caused Downs Syndrome. When the medical profession starting using his discovery for pre-natal screening result in …
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June 12 Reclaiming St Petersburg from the Communists
Season 6 Episode 12
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A decisive and democratic vote in 1991 returned the title of St Petersburg after it had been called Leningrad for 70 years. It was another clear indication that Christianity was more r…
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June 11 Fulton Sheen the Emmy winning Bishop
Season 6 Episode 11
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Fulton J Sheen was one of the first televangelists. A telegenic, gifted communicator, he had a very fruitful apostolate. Was the victim of vicious inter-church politics but his cause f…
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June 10 Von Harnack and the Theology of Culture
Season 6 Episode 10
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Hugely influential Theologian and Historian, training generations of leaders and teachers in Liberal Protestantism and the Theology of Culture. One of his key pupils Karl Barth would …
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