Heart and Soul Episodes Episode guide
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Waves & Worship. Portugal's Surf Church
Paddle, Preach, and Pray - we take you inside Portugal’s 'Surf Church'.
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Musambwa: Snake Island
Musambwa: Lake Victoria’s Sacred Island
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Malcolm X's letter from Hajj
Malcolm X’s Hajj was one of many transformations. His daughter explores his legacy
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What does God do when I pray?
Praying for healing
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Praying for healing
What does God do when I pray? – an astrophysicist’s searches for answers.
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Our Sacred Harp
Tim Eriksen takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing (R)
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Violence, children and Cambodia's monks
How Cambodia's Buddhist monks are working to end violence against children
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Guns, grief and god: Part 2
Edward Stourton visits a church community following a school shooting
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Guns, grief and god: Part 1
How a school shooting victim helped his community heal through faith and forgiveness
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Kai Höss: My grandfather the Commandant of Auschwitz
The grandson of Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, comes to terms with his family
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The mosque for Bangladesh’s transgender women
A community giving intersex and transgender individuals in Bangladesh a place to worship
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Ayahuasca and the new spiritual tourism
A new wave of spiritual tourism is reshaping sacred ayahuasca practises in Peru
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Becoming a Buddhist Bhikshuni in Bhutan
The first Western Buddhist nun to be fully ordained in Bhutan tells us her story
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The only thing certain in life
Can we prepare or train for our own mortality in order to find peace with death?
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The caretaker of Bukhara
Abram Ishakov is the caretaker of the oldest synagogue in Central Asia
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Feminism is my jihad
How feminists in Turkey navigate Islam and activism
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Spirituality in Sin City
Rajeev Gupta learns about a spiritual movement in Las Vegas.
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Kaddish: Why we pray for the dead
Michael Goldfarb explores Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for mourning the dead
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The plight of Hindus in Bangladesh: Part two
Sahar Zand investigates the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh
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The plight of Hindus in Bangladesh: Part one
Sahar Zand investigates the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh
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From The Ashes: Notre Dame
Stories of hope and inspiration around the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral
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Antisemitism in Turkey
The rising antisemitism faced by the Jewish community in Turkey.
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Black Madonnas
Searching for the origins of these images and their global significance for black women
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At the end of the wall
At the end of America’s border wall, James Naughtie meets the people helping migrants
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An African missionary in France
How missionaries from Africa are helping to keep the Catholic faith alive in France
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The right thing: The human shield
Why an Australian journalist decided to try and stop Western powers bombing Iraq
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The Right Thing: The Arab Holocaust museum
.Why an Arab Israeli set out to educate his fellow Palestinians about the Holocaust
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How the war in Gaza helped me find God
Why the conflict in Gaza led a woman in Liverpool to become a Muslim
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Seeking justice from Opus Dei
Women who worked in Opus Dei centres say they endured emotional and spiritual abuse
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The dead are not dead
What is Enkumbi, a ritual practised in certain cultures in Uganda and across Africa?