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BBC All Things Considered

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. As ...

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 ...
1 week ago

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 ...
2 weeks ago

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.
3 weeks ago

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 ...
1 month ago

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 ...
1 month ago

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 ...
2 months ago

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 ...
2 months ago

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 ...
2 months ago

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 ...
2 months ago

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.
2 months ago

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.
3 months ago

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 ...
3 months ago

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 ...
3 months ago

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 ...
3 months ago

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.
08/09/09

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.
08/02/09

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 ...
07/26/09

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?
07/19/09

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.
07/12/09