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Mar 15 Cardinal Manning and the Dock Strike
Season 3 Episode 15
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Cardinal Manning was unusually a widow, and became very influential in Catholic Social Teaching - today we find out why.
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Mar 14 Dr Livingstone I presume
Season 3 Episode 14
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Today we remember the journalist Morgan Stanleys success in finding the lost explorer Dr Livingstone. And why did he become so famo…
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Feb 25 Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights
Season 2 Episode 25
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A sad story of the mass suicide of 200 pagan Lithuanians defending themselves against the Teutonic Knights today in 1336
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Feb 26 Sheldon and What Would Jesus Do?
Season 2 Episode 26
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Today we look at the birth of Charles Sheldon, his publication of In His Steps and the birth of the What Would Jesus Do movement
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Feb 27 Keir Hardy, Methodism and Labour
Season 2 Episode 27
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Today we remember the founding of the Labour party and the Methodist lay preacher Kier Hardy
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Feb 28 Victorian Slum Priest Charles Lowder
Season 2 Episode 28
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Today we remember the founding of the Society of the Holy Cross, SSC by Charles Fuge Lowder, an Anglican order which worked in the sl…
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Mar 1 Bishop Oldhams' Anglo-Chinese schools
Season 3 Episode 1
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We look at the life work of Methodist William Oldham, his work in mapping India and setting up Singapore's most prestigious school
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Mar 2 - The Death of John Wesley
Season 3 Episode 2
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Today we look at the remarkable life of John Wesley, the beginning of Methodism and the death of 'the most loved man in Britain'
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Mar 3 - The First Concordance
Season 3 Episode 3
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Today we look at the life of Dominican Hugh of St Cher, his work on producing the first concordance - a milestone in Biblical Studies…
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Mar 4 - William Penn's holy experiment of Pennsylvania
Season 3 Episode 5
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Today King Charles II granted a royal charter to Quaker William Pen making him the largest (non-royal) landowner in the world. Thus …
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