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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 was cel…
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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 found he…
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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 each oth…
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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 idealistic Pur…
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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? We …
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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 are n…
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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 baptis…
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Apr 23 St George and the Order of the Garter
Season 4 Episode 23
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Today we look at the significance of St George, and how the chapel named after him at Windsor became the home of the Order of the Garter. …
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Apr 22 In God we Trust - Post Civil War Money
Season 4 Episode 22
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We look at how 'In God we Trust' eventually replaced 'ex pluribus unum' as the motto of the USA. How the trauma of post-civil war destruc…
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Apr 21 Eagleton v Dawkins, the Terry Lectures
Season 4 Episode 21
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Today we look at Terry Eagleton's Dwight H Terry Lectures at Yale University in 2009. With the title 'Faith and Fundamentalism: Is belief …
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