Heart and Soul Episodes Available now

Our Sacred Harp
Tim Eriksen takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing

Violence, children and Cambodia's monks
How Cambodia's Buddhist monks are working to end violence against children

Guns, grief and god: Part 2
Edward Stourton visits a church community following a school shooting

Guns, grief and god: Part 1
How a school shooting victim helped his community heal through faith and forgiveness

Kai Höss: My grandfather the Commandant of Auschwitz
The grandson of Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, comes to terms with his family

The mosque for Bangladesh’s transgender women
A community giving intersex and transgender individuals in Bangladesh a place to worship

Ayahuasca and the new spiritual tourism
A new wave of spiritual tourism is reshaping sacred ayahuasca practises in Peru

Becoming a Buddhist Bhikshuni in Bhutan
The first Western Buddhist nun to be fully ordained in Bhutan tells us her story

The only thing certain in life
Can we prepare or train for our own mortality in order to find peace with death?

The caretaker of Bukhara
Abram Ishakov is the caretaker of the oldest synagogue in Central Asia