BBC All Things Considered
BBC All Things Considered
Award-winning series exploring religious, spiritual and moral issues. All Things Considered adopts a variety of formats, from documentary to interview and discussion, but is always revealing. The programme is broadcast weekly on BBC Radio Wales on Sundays 0831 - 0859 and Wednesdays 1832 - 1900.
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ATC: Faith and the Environment
Looking ahead to the Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference in December, Roy Jenkins is joined by four guests, each from a different faith community, to explore the extent to which religious beliefs shape our relationships with the natural world? How ...
ATC: All Roads Lead to Rome?
Some reckon it could herald a change as dramatic as the Reformation 500 years ago. Even those less excited claim it has significantly damaged both the Anglican Communion and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Roy Jenkins and guests look at Pope Benedict’s ...
ATC: Sacred Songs / Funerals
Roy Jenkins hears about Qudduson, a musical venture from The Clerks which blends sacred music of east and west; Roy also looks at the changing nature of funerals.
ATC: Sue Black – Forensic Anthropologist
Roy Jenkins' guest is Prof. Sue Black, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists. She has been in mass graves in Kosovo, examined the results of atrocities in Sierra Leone, Iraq, Thailand and various other countries and picked through evidence ...
ATC: Tim Rhys Evans
Roy Jenkins talks to Tim Rhys Evans, founder and musical director of 'Only Men Aloud', the Welsh choir who hit the headlines after winning the BBC series 'Last Choir Standing'. He reflects on the choir’s success and, for the first time in a broadcast ...
ATC: Brighton Bomb / Forgiveness
25 years ago this month, an IRA bomb exploded during the Conservative Party conference. Five people were killed and many were injured. On this edition of All Things Considered there’s another chance to hear Roy Jenkins’ interview with two people ...
ATC: Brighton Bomb / Forgiveness
25 years ago this month, an IRA bomb exploded during the Conservative Party conference. Five people were killed and many were injured. On this edition of All Things Considered there’s another chance to hear Roy Jenkins’ interview with two people ...
ATC: Dame Anne Owers
The United Kingdom locks up more people than any comparable democracy. Many are held in cramped conditions, and risk violence and self-harm. The challenges are complex, but drawing attention to such issues is part of the job of Dame Anne Owers, the Chief ...
ATC: Jazz in worship / Back to Church Sunday
In this edition of All Things Considered, Peter Baker meets composer Scott Stroman ahead of the Jazz worship workshop which he will be running in Cardiff. And, as many places of worship prepare for "Back to Church Sunday", we debate whether traditional ...
ATC: Relics & St. Therese of Lisieux
In this edition of "All Things Considered" Peter Baker looks ahead to UK visit of the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux asking what place the veneration of relics and saints has in the 21st century church.
ATC: Cambodia / Photo Exhibition
Roy Jenkins hears about a creative arts \ntherapy project which helps trauma victims in Cambodia and also visits the "No Such Things As Society" exhibition in Cardiff to discuss the role of documentary photographers and belief.
ATC: Economist Brian Griffiths
Another chance to hear a programme broadcast in February of this year when Roy Jenkins’ guest was the leading economist Brian Griffiths – Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach. Formerly head of Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit he talks about the ...
ATC: The Blood of the Martyrs
On this edition of All Things Considered there’s another chance to hear Roy Jenkins’ interview with Pru and Stuart Bell, a couple from Aberystwyth who visited China to retrace the footsteps of their missionary great grandparents, who over 100 years ...
ATC: Churches and Holiday makers
This week Roy Jenkins is in Llandudno, to find out what local churches and Christian organisations do to welcome holidaymakers. He visits a United Beach Mission, a church which holds its Sunday evening service at 7.45 to accommodate holidaymakers, a ...
ATC: The Archbishop of Canterbury
This week, another chance to hear Roy Jenkins' interview with the Most Rev’d Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the 77 million-strong worldwide Anglican Communion. First broadcast March 2009.
ATC: Equality laws and religious freedom
Roy Jenkins and guests look at the changing equality laws in Britain and how they relate to religious liberty.
ATC: Campaigner Hanif Bhamjee
This week, Roy Jenkins' guest is Hanif Bhamjee, who was forced to flee from South Africa in 1965 because of his underground activities. He continued to dedicate himself in exile to the fight against apartheid and his campaigning work has this week been ...
ATC: Christianity in the Digital Age
Roy Jenkins and guests discuss\nthe place of Christianity in the digital revolution, asking in what ways it is changing the way we communicate and express religious belief and how authentic is worship and community in an online church?
ATC: John Calvin
To mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, theologian, lawyer and preacher, Roy Jenkins chairs a discussion exploring the life and work of this towering figure of the Protestant reformation.