Heart and Soul

BBC World Service

Heart and Soul is a weekly half-hour programme that has the scope and understanding to explore different experiences of spirituality from around the world. Whether examining religious faith or any other belief-system, the programme talks to believers and non-believers, and tries to get beyond superficial notions of spirituality and religion.

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20 episodes
Updated Apr 21, 2023

Episodes20

Newest first

Apr 21, 2023 · 27 min
The Church's slave plantation: Part one
How have the Church of England's historic slave plantations affected Barbados?
Apr 14, 2023 · 27 min
Sikhism’s lost song
How a new generation of Sikhs are decolonising their sacred music
Apr 7, 2023 · 27 min
Clergy in cartel land
Meet the young men preparing to join the most dangerous priesthood in the world
Mar 31, 2023 · 27 min
Purity to nudity
How nudity is helping Gwen heal from purity culture’s teachings about the female body
Mar 24, 2023 · 26 min
My hijab or my sport
Salimata faces a choice between her hijab and competing in the sport she loves
Mar 17, 2023 · 27 min
An instrument speaking to the infinite
How did the organ become a vehicle for cosmic ideas - for atheists and believers alike?
Mar 15, 2023 · 26 min
Two Rabbis, worlds apart in Israel
Meet the rabbis at odds over how Jewish Israel should be.
Mar 2, 2023 · 26 min
Coming out of the Ifá closet
One man’s conversion to African spirituality and how his Christian family reacted
Feb 17, 2023 · 26 min
Stripped of my spirituality
How Native Americans forced into Church boarding schools are reclaiming their spirituality
Feb 10, 2023 · 26 min
The cost of being an atheist in Nigeria
When a Nigerian atheist criticises Islam online, he’s left facing 24 years in jail
Feb 3, 2023 · 27 min
The Right Thing: Framed by my brother
Floyd Bledsoe’s Christian forgiveness was tested when his brother accused him of murder
Jan 27, 2023 · 27 min
The Right Thing: Opposing sexual violence as a weapon of war
Denis Mukwege, the doctor and Christian who saves women injured by sexual violence
Jan 20, 2023 · 27 min
The Viking priest
Ásatrú is Iceland’s fastest growing faith, but it is being hijacked by white supremacists
Jan 13, 2023 · 26 min
The battle for souls in Nepal
Meet the controversial Korean missionaries driving the growth of Christianity in Nepal
Jan 9, 2023 · 26 min
Pope Benedict XVI: A life and legacy
To mark the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Colm Flynn explores his life and legacy.
Jan 2, 2023 · 26 min
Thich Nhat Hanh’s censored legacy
How a monk known as the father of mindfulness became a controversial figure in Vietnam
Dec 26, 2022 · 26 min
Christmas with the cooking priest
How Fr Leo Patalinghug is changing people's 'hearts and minds' through their stomach
Dec 19, 2022 · 26 min
The Iran protests
Three Iranian women discuss religion, personal faith and the struggle for independence
Dec 9, 2022 · 27 min
Poland's Jews: Caught between, never home
What is it like to be a third-generation Jew in present-day Poland?
Dec 2, 2022 · 26 min
Arizona's desert crosses
The artist planting crosses in the desert in Arizona to memorialise dead migrants.