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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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June 29 Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poet of the Spirit
Season 6 Episode 29
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A Victorian Poet who was outstanding for her poetry - love sonnets, religious poem and feminist poetry. She died today after eloping…
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June 28 Monsignor Benson's the Lord of the World - the father of Dystopian Science Fiction
Season 6 Episode 28
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Lord of the World is a 1907 dystopian science fiction novel by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson that centres upon the reign of the Antich…
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June 27 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Girard
Season 6 Episode 27
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One of the most innovative thinkers of the 20th century was the polymath Rene Girard. His theory about mimetic desire, mimetic rivalr…
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