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Heart and Soul

Each week, Heart and Soul explores and tries to explain personal experiences of spirituality and faith from around the world.

World Service,924 episodes

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Musambwa: Snake Island
The male-only community of fisherman of Musambwa Island and their spiritual practices
23 May 2025,26 mins
Malcolm X: Letter from Hajj
How Malcolm X's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964 profoundly reshaped his worldview
16 May 2025,26 mins
Praying for healing?
When his wife developed ME, theologian Prof David Wilkinson's faith came into sharp focus
09 May 2025,26 mins
After Francis: What do Catholics want next?
After Pope Francis' death, Catholics look to Rome as the Church elects a new leader.
02 May 2025,26 mins
Our Sacred Harp
Tim Eriksen takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing
25 Apr 2025,26 mins
Violence, children and Cambodia's monks
How Cambodia's Buddhist monks are working to end violence against children
18 Apr 2025,26 mins
Guns, grief and god
Edward Stourton visits a church community following a school shooting.
11 Apr 2025,26 mins
Guns, grief and god: Part 1
How a school shooting victim helped his community heal through faith and forgiveness
04 Apr 2025,26 mins
Kai Höss: My Grandfather - the Commandant of Auschwitz
The grandson of Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, comes to with his family
28 Mar 2025,26 mins
The mosque for Bangladesh’s transgender women
A community giving intersex and transgender individuals in Bangladesh a place to worship.
21 Mar 2025,26 mins
Ayahuasca and the new spiritual tourism
A new wave of spiritual tourism is reshaping sacred ayahuasca practises in Peru
14 Mar 2025,26 mins
Becoming a Buddhist Bhikshuni in Bhutan
The first Western Buddhist nun to be fully ordained in Bhutan tells us her story
28 Feb 2025,26 mins
The only thing certain in life
Can we prepare or train for our own mortality in order to find peace with death?
21 Feb 2025,26 mins
The caretaker of Bukhara
Abram Ishakov is the caretaker of the oldest synagogue in Central Asia
14 Feb 2025,26 mins
Feminism is my jihad
How feminists in Turkey navigate Islam and activism
07 Feb 2025,26 mins
Spirituality in Sin City
Rajeev Gupta learns about a spiritual movement in Las Vegas.
31 Jan 2025,26 mins
Kaddish: Why we pray for the dead
Michael Goldfarb explores Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for mourning the dead
17 Jan 2025,26 mins
The plight of Hindus in Bangladesh: Part two
Sahar Zand investigates the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh
10 Jan 2025,26 mins
The plight of Hindus in Bangladesh: Part one
Sahar Zand investigates the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh
03 Jan 2025,26 mins
From The Ashes: Notre Dame
Stories of hope and inspiration around the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral
27 Dec 2024,26 mins
Antisemitism in Turkey
The rising antisemitism faced by the Jewish community in Turkey.
20 Dec 2024,26 mins
Black Madonnas
Searching for the origins of these images and their global significance for black women
13 Dec 2024,26 mins
At the end of the wall
At the end of America’s border wall, James Naughtie meets the people helping migrants
29 Nov 2024,26 mins
An African missionary in
How missionaries from Africa are helping to keep the Catholic faith alive in
22 Nov 2024,26 mins
The right thing: The human shield
Why an Australian journalist decided to try and stop Western powers bombing Iraq
15 Nov 2024,26 mins
The Right Thing: The Arab Holocaust museum
.Why an Arab Israeli set out to educate his fellow Palestinians about the Holocaust
08 Nov 2024,26 mins
How the war in Gaza helped me find God
Why the conflict in Gaza led a woman in Liverpool to become a Muslim
01 Nov 2024,26 mins
Seeking justice from Opus Dei
Women who worked in Opus Dei centres say they endured emotional and spiritual abuse
25 Oct 2024,26 mins
The dead are not dead
What is Enkumbi, a ritual practised in certain cultures in Uganda and across Africa?
18 Oct 2024,26 mins
Reclaiming yoga
Yoga is big business but has it become disconnected from its spiritual roots?
11 Oct 2024,26 mins