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Lent Talks Episodes

  1. The Tomb

    Dr Julian Litten takes listeners to Kensal Green Cemetery in north-west London.

  2. The Execution - The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, at the Tower of London

    Catholic writer and director of the Centre for Character and Values, Cristina Odone.

  3. The Garden

    Journalist and author Madeleine reflects on Jesus's last night in the garden of Gethsemane

  4. The Dining Room

    Dr Michael Banner visits the dining hall at Trinity College to reflect on the Last Supper.

  5. The City

    Maxwell Hutchinson on Jesus's arrival in Jerusalem and his confrontation at the temple.

  6. The Wilderness

    The Rev Dr Emma Loveridge takes listeners to her isolated retreat in east Devon.

  7. Sir John Eliot Gardiner

    Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner reflects on the Passion story.

  8. Sarah Perry

    Author Sarah Perry reflects on the Passion story.

  9. Quentin Letts

    Theatre critic and parliamentary sketch writer Quentin Letts reflects on the Passion story

  10. Michael Symmons Roberts

    Michael Symmons Roberts reflects on the Passion story.

  11. Kate Saunders

    Novelist and actor Kate Saunders reflects on the Passion story.

  12. James Runcie

    Writer and director James Runcie looks at the Passion through the prism of mystery drama.

  13. Jim Wallis

    The Power and the Passion: Jim Wallis on the power of the cross.

  14. Marina Warner

    The Power and the Passion: Marina Warner reflects on the power of places.

  15. Andrew Adonis

    The Power and the Passion: Andrew Adonis reflects on people power.

  16. Nicholas Shakespeare

    The Power and the Passion: Nicholas Shakespeare on worldly power.

  17. Catherine Fox

    The Power and the Passion: Novelist Catherine Fox on the power of submission.

  18. Bonnie Greer

    The Power and the Passion - Bonnie Greer considers the power of names.

  19. Lucy Winkett

    Canon Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James's, Piccadilly, reflects on spiritual abandonment.

  20. Imam Asim Hafiz

    Imam Asim Hafiz, Muslim Chaplain to HM Forces, explores the abandonment created by war.

  21. Loretta Minghella

    Director of Christian Aid Loretta Minghella considers the abandonment of self.

  22. Benjamin Cohen

    Jewish journalist Benjamin Cohen reflects on his fear of being abandoned for being gay.

  23. Alexander McCall Smith

    Alexander McCall Smith considers how you can feel abandoned by society as you grow older.

  24. Baroness Helena Kennedy

    Baroness Helena Kennedy QC considers what it means to abandon being human.

  25. Sr Gemma Simmonds CJ

    Six well-known figures reflect on how the Lenten story of Jesus's ministry and Passion.

  26. Prof Tariq Ramadan

    Prof Tariq Ramadan sets out the philosophy of the individual and its absence in Islam.

  27. Martin Wroe

    Martin Wroe explores the individual being at its most divine when working in community.

  28. Prof John Lennox

    Prof John Lennox describes how God is encountered through science.

  29. Prof Linda Woodhead

    Linda Woodhead explores the emergence of new communities and social groups.

  30. 29/02/2012

    The Rt Rev Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford, asks if we are 'one alone or one of many'.

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