In Our Time: Religion
BBC Radio 4Discussion of religious movements and the theories and individuals behind them.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 131 | Founded | 14 years ago |
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| Category | History | ||||
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore typology, a method of biblical interpretation that aims to meaningfully link people, places, and events in the Hebrew Bible, what Christians call the Old Testament, with the coming of Christ in the New Testament. Old T... more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Hindu goddess Kali, often depicted as dark blue, fierce, defiant, revelling in her power, and holding in her four or more arms a curved sword and a severed head with a cup underneath to catch the blood. She may hav... more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a story that circulated widely in the middle ages about a highly learned woman who lived in the ninth century, dressed as a man, travelled to Rome, and was elected Pope.
Her papacy came to a dramatic end when it was r... more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the doctrine of Karma as developed initially among Hindus, Jains and Buddhists in India from the first millennium BCE. Common to each is an idea, broadly, that you reap what you sow: how you act in this world has conse... more
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- By itself, justifies the existence of the BBC
What an achievement this series is - absolute jewel in the crown, pretty much the only surviving vestige of Reithian broadcasting. It is unashamedly serious and substantive, a celebration of scholarly expertise, but at the same time incredibly enjoyable not least because of the infectious intellectual enthusiasm of the guests and because of Bragg’s purposeful and informed chairing of the discussions. Yes, with age he has begun to meander and his increasingly frequent interruption of his guests c... more
Apple Podcasts55th Generation Blades Fan
United Kingdom6 months ago - Bravo!
Wonderful high-quality program... Bravo!
Apple Podcasts5Herodotus484
Canada7 months ago - Why Melvyn Bragg?
Melvyn Bragg is extremely condescending toward many of his expert guests (the Lakshmi episode was too painful to listen to in full). He cuts them off and poses non-sequitur questions with a strange unnerving aggression. To give this person the entire series makes no sense to me. He grills each expert and has no curiosity about what they then say in response to his questions. His interest seems to be solely directed back toward his own musings. The guests are great, yet the program is often painf... more
Apple Podcasts2S_Hermes_G
United States8 months ago - Info nerd alert
Love learning new stuff about the world. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Apple Podcasts5ReeReeGirlUnited Kingdom9 months ago - Host will not stop speaking over podcast guests.
I was very excited to learn about Lakshmi but in that episode I only made it about 15 minutes through because I was already totally lost thanks to the host. It was very difficult to stay with the story of Lakshmi and understand what the guests were trying to teach because the host just kept interrupting them literally over and over again. What’s the point of having guests on if you think you know better than them and you won’t let them finish their thought?
Apple Podcasts1absy19United Statesa year ago
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Apple Podcasts | #119 | United Kingdom/History |
Apple Podcasts | #159 |  Germany/History |
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