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May 3 The Sign of the Beast
Season 5 Episode 3
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Today we look at the birth of Uriah Smith and Seventh Day Adventism. Emerging out of a failed prophecy of the End of the World we lo…
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May 2 Fr Kircher, the Plague and Quarantine
Season 5 Episode 2
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The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. Among his many accomplishments he was the first to look at the…
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May 1 Death of David Livingstone
Season 5 Episode 1
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Perhaps the Westerner who did more to shape thinking about Africa then anyone else. Both a father of European Colonialism and a forer…
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Apr 30 The Polish Mystic, Faustina and the Divine Mercy
Season 4 Episode 30
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The Polish Mystic Faustina Kowalska was declared a saint in the presence of 200,000 people today and the first Divine Mercy Sunday wa…
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Apr 29 Joan of Arc
Episode 29
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The teenage illiterate peasant girl who saved France, inspired by courage and faith. We look at some of her story today, how she fou…
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Apr 28 Mutiny on the Bounty
Season 4 Episode 28
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What essentially became the archetypal morality tale for Britain's period of Naval Supremacy. Most of the mutineers died fighting eac…
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Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost
Season 4 Episode 27
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Some people describe it as the greatest poem in the English Language. Today we look at the lament 'Paradise Lost' - by the idealisti…
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Apr 26 Shakespeare's Baptism and Hidden Messages
Season 4 Episode 26
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Was William Shakespeare sending hidden messages to Catholics, at a time when in England to be a Catholic could be equated to treason?…
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Apr 25 Barnsley FC & Muscular Christianity
Season 4 Episode 25
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We look at the life of Tiverton Preedy and the influence of the movement 'Muscular Christianity' on him. He founded Barnsley FC who …
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Apr 24 Baptism of St Augustine
Season 4 Episode 24
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Augustine of Hippo was one of the finest minds of the ancient world and became the preeminent Chruch Father. Today we mark his late b…
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