Beyond Belief (radio series)

Beyond Belief is a radio programme on the subject of religion, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The show typically runs for 30 minutes, and features representatives of different faith traditions discussing a religious or moral issue. The programme, hosted by Ernie Rea, was first broadcast on 7 January 2002. The 200th edition was broadcast on 29 June 2009. On 15 July 2019, a special edition, looking at the relationship between religious faith and imagination, came from the Hay-on-Wye festival.

Programmes

Broadcast date and BroadcastTitle
1 Jun 2009 Just War Theory
6 Jul 2009 Orange Order
8 Jun 2009 Traditional African religions
13 Jul 2009 Poverty as a spiritual practice
15 Jun 2009 Alzheimer's disease
20 Jul 2009 Internet
22 Jun 2009 John Calvin
24 Aug 2009 Evangelism and stadium crusades
27 Jul 2009 Witchcraft
29 Jun 2009 Post-secular society.
3 Aug 2009 History and theology of the Islamic republic of Iran
10 Aug 2009 Water
17 Aug 2009 God and Neuroscience
1 Feb 2010 Monastic communities
8 Feb 2010 Epic of Gilgamesh
15 Feb 2010 Monogamy
22 Feb 2010 Religion and the law
1 Mar 2010 Saints
4 Oct 2010 Islam in America
8 Mar 2010 Biblical attitudes to childlessness
15 Mar 2010 Climate change debate
22 Mar 2010 Islam in Europe
12 Jul 2010 Sacredness of Hair
19 Jul 2010 Women in leadership
26 Jul 2010 Islam & Music
30 Aug 2010 Origins of the universe
6 Sep 2010 English Catholicism
9 Aug 2010 Abstinence
13 Sep 2010 Cardinal Newman
2 Aug 2010 Sanctuary
16 Aug 2010 Secular meaning to life
20 Sep 2010 Charedi (ultra orthodox) Jewish communities
23 Aug 2010 Faith and disability
27 Sep 2010 Religion in prison
13 Dec 2010 Supernatural
20 Dec 2010 Philanthropy
27 Dec 2010 three wise-men
3 Jan 2011 Translating sacred texts
10 Jan 2011 Suicide
17 Jan 2011 Religion in Egypt
24 Jan 2011 Ayodhya
31 Jan 2011 Celebrity culture
7 Feb 2011 Sunni and Shia Islam
14 Feb 2011 Faith schools
21 Feb 2011 Nuns
7 Mar 2011 Immortality
11 Jul 2011 Christian understanding of Hell
18 Jul 2011 Arab Spring and Middlle Eastern Christians
25 Jul 2011 Religion and the Big Society
1 Aug 2011 Religion and Generational Divide
8 Aug 2011 Sabbath
15 Aug 2011 Globalisation on religion
22 Aug 2011 Sectarianism in Scotland
2 Jan 2012 Islam and the Veil
23 Jan 2012 Same-sex marriage
16 Jan 2012 Protestant Work Ethic
9 Jan 2012 Mystical Experiences
29 Aug 2011 Buddhism in the West
5 Sep 2011 Jewish identity
12 Sep 2011 Christian and Muslim understandings of God
19 Sep 2011 Exorcism
26 Sep 2011 Britain's black churches
3 Oct 2011 Catholicism in the Irish Republic
30 Jan 2012 Pilgrimage
6 Feb 2012 Republican Nomination
13 Feb 2012 Role of Bishops in the House of Lords
20 Feb 2012 Baha'i faith
27 Feb 2012 Religion in Korea
12 Mar 2012 Travellers
19 Mar 2012 Religion in Nigeria
26 Mar 2012 Adoption
5 Mar 2012 Atheism
2 Apr 2012 Cross
3 Sep 2012 Egalitarianism
10 Sep 2012 Women in Hinduism
20 Aug 2012 Witchcraft & Child abuse
27 Aug 2012 Baptists
13 Aug 2012 Religion in Syria
6 Aug 2012 Fear in religion
30 Jul 2012 Depression
23 Apr 2012 Physics
16 Apr 2012 Religious foundations and function of monarchy
9 Apr 2012 Olympics
31 Dec 2012 Apocalyptic
7 Jan 2013 Unification Church
14 Jan 2013 Women in Sikhism
21 Jan 2013 Development of Mecca
28 Jan 2013 Antisemitism in Europe
4 Feb 2013 Religion in Mali
11 Feb 2013 Inquisition
18 Feb 2013 Rastafari
24 Sep 2012 Religion in Russia
17 Sep 2012 Treatment of civilians in armed conflict
25 Feb 2013 Islam and Homosexuality
4 Mar 2013 Animals
18 Mar 2013 Religion and Addiction
11 Mar 2013 Restorative justice
3 Jun 2013 Livingstone's Legacy
10 Jun 2013 Celibacy
17 Jun 2013 Religion and Mrs Thatcher's Politics
13 May 2013 Jesuits
20 May 2013 Fire in Religion
25 Mar 2013 Evangelical
27 May 2013 Religion & the Coronation
5 Aug 2013 Faith and Doubt
12 Aug 2013 Organ donation
19 Aug 2013 Buddhism and violence
26 Aug 2013 Martin Luther King Jr.
2 Sep 2013 Comedy and Religion
9 Sep 2013 Near-death experience
16 Sep 2013 Sunni and Shia Islam
23 Sep 2013 Why Religions Change
30 Sep 2013 JRR Tolkien
13 Jan 2014 Archaeology and Religion
20 Jan 2014 Eve
27 Jan 2014 Christianity and the Law
3 Feb 2014 Ahmadi
10 Feb 2014 Yoga
17 Feb 2014 Religion in Russia
24 Feb 2014 Are Institutions in Decline?
3 Mar 2014 Pope Francis
10 Mar 2014 Lent
17 Mar 2014 Stonehenge
24 Mar 2014 Christian views on environmentalism
19 May 2014 Religion in Brazil
26 May 2014 Mindfulness
2 Jun 2014 Last Rites
16 Jun 2014 Islam and education
23 Jun 2014 Christianity and Gender Identity
30 Jun 2014 Shakespeare and Religion
18 Aug 2014 Seven Deadly Sins
25 Aug 2014 Charity
1 Sep 2014 Holy Spirit
8 Sep 2014 Religious History of Iraq
15 Sep 2014 Agnosticism
22 Sep 2014 Religion and PR
29 Sep 2014 Karma
6 Oct 2014 Catholic Synod on the family
24 Nov 2014 Avatars
1 Dec 2014 Plague narratives and Ebola
8 Dec 2014 Spiritualism
22 Dec 2014 T. S. Eliot's Religious Poetry
29 Dec 2014 Magna Carta
5 Jan 2015 Moses
12 Jan 2015 Fundamentalism
2 Mar 2015 Purgatory
9 Mar 2015 End Time Beliefs in Islam
16 Mar 2015 Religious literacy
23 Mar 2015 Confucianism
30 Mar 2015 Scapegoat
6 Apr 2015 Artificial Intelligence
25 May 2015 Humanism
1 Jun 2015 Religion and Earthquakes
8 Jun 2015 Religion in Greece
15 Jun 2015 Compassion
22 Jun 2015 Papal Encyclical on Environment and Climate Change
29 Jun 2015 Hadith
17 Aug 2015 Religion and Debt
24 Aug 2015 Religion in Tunisia
31 Aug 2015 Ghosts
7 Sep 2015 Rumi
14 Sep 2015 Betrayal
21 Sep 2015 Pacifism
28 Sep 2015 New Religious Communities
5 Oct 2015 Christianity and family
23 Nov 2015 How Islamic is the So-Called Islamic State?
30 Nov 2015 Interfaith marriage
7 Dec 2015 50 Years of Nostra aetate
14 Dec 2015 Childlessness
21 Dec 2015 Yule
28 Dec 2015 Heaven and the Afterlife
4 Jan 2016 Religion and Psychotherapy
11 Jan 2016 Religion in France
29 Feb 2016 Religion in Saudi Arabia
7 Mar 2016 Storytelling in Christianity
14 Mar 2016 Mercy
21 Mar 2016 Fixed Easter
28 Mar 2016 Apparitions of Mary
16 May 2016 Social Media
23 May 2016 Original Sin
30 May 2016 Rule of Benedict
6 Jun 2016 Religion in Belgium
13 Jun 2016 Freedom of Expression
20 Jun 2016 US Republican Party
27 Jun 2016 Battle of the Somme
15 Aug 2016 Cultural Revolution
22 Aug 2016 Sharia Councils in the UK
29 Aug 2016 Hair
5 Sep 2016 Religious Education
12 Sep 2016 Trauma
19 Sep 2016 Clergy during the The Troubles
26 Sep 2016 Religion in Turkey
3 Oct 2016 Children's literature
21 Nov 2016 Iconoclasm
28 Nov 2016 Zionism and Judaism
5 Dec 2016 Immigration and the Church
12 Dec 2016 Cryonics and immortality
19 Dec 2016 Virgin Birth
Boxing Day 2016 Religion and consumerism
2 Jan 2017 Martin Luther and the Reformation
27 Feb 2017 Religion in Pakistan
6 Mar 2017 Mental Health
13 Mar 2017 Science Fiction
20 Mar 2017 Interfaith Worship
27 Mar 2017 Confession
3 Apr 2017 Truth
22 May 2017 Religion in Germany
29 May 2017 Ancestors
5 Jun 2017 Jane Austen
12 Jun 2017 Moon
19 Jun 2017 Religion and Hip Hop
14 Aug 2017 BR Ambedkar
21 Aug 2017 Sermons
4 Sep 2017 William Blake's Jerusalem
18 Sep 2017 Religious Polls
25 Sep 2017 Belief and Unbelief in Russia
13 Nov 2017 Death Rituals in the Absence of a Body
20 Nov 2017 Power of Chanting
27 Nov 2017 Sacred Directions
11 Dec 2017 Good Samaritan
18 Dec 2017 Light
Christmas Day 2017 Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
New Year's Day 2018 Time
2 Apr 2018 Sacred garden
9 Apr 2018 Good Friday Agreement
23 Apr 2018 Sacred Spaces
7 May 2018 Fashion
2 Jul 2018 Khadijah
9 Jul 2018 Jane Eyre
20 Aug 2018 Romanovs
27 Aug 2018 Religion and Humour
3 Sep 2018 Religion in Mexico
9 Sep 2019 Frankenstein
10 Sep 2018 Disability
1 Oct 2018 Transgender
2 Oct 2018 Begging
3 Oct 2018 Spinsterhood
4 Oct 2018 Swearing an Oath
5 Oct 2018 Religion and Numbers
5 Nov 2018 Remembrance
12 Nov 2018 Religion in China
19 Nov 2018 Blood
26 Nov 2018 Artificial intelligence
3 Dec 2018 Far Right and Christianity
10 Dec 2018 Blasphemy
17 Dec 2018 Purple
Christmas Eve 2018 Angels
31 Dec 2018 Superhero
1 Apr 2019 Masculinity and Religion
8 Apr 2019 Femininity and Religion
15 Apr 2019 Passover
22 Apr 2019 Amritsar Massacre
29 Apr 2019 Notre-Dame
6 May 2019 Space
13 May 2019 Religion in Sri Lanka
20 May 2019 Veganism
27 May 2019 Ego
15 Jul 2019 Imagination
22 Jul 2019 Free Will
29 Jul 2019 Trees
5 Aug 2019 Religion of Game of Thrones
12 Aug 2019 Relationship education
19 Aug 2019 Religion and Climate Justice
26 Aug 2019 Religion in Spain
2 Sep 2019 Nature of God
2 Dec 2019 Rumi
9 Dec 2019 Friendship
16 Dec 2019 Saudi Arabia and Iran
23 Dec 2019 Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
30 Dec 2019 Miracles
6 Jan 2020 Religion and Smell
6 Apr 2020 Sin
13 Apr 2020 Ethical Investing
20 Apr 2020 Reincarnation
27 Apr 2020 Religion Online
4 May 2020 William Wordsworth
11 May 2020 Dieting
18 May 2020 Marriage
17 Aug 2020 Animal Farm
24 Aug 2020 Bathing
31 Aug 2020 Face
7 Sep 2020 Mayflower
14 Sep 2020 Rosh Hashanah
21 Sep 2020 US Presidential Election
28 Sep 2020 Religion in Hong Kong
5 Oct 2020 Prayer
23 Nov 2020 Religion and Soap Operas
30 Nov 2020 Debt
7 Dec 2020 Grief
14 Dec 2020 Beethoven's Spirituality
21 Dec 2020 Mary, mother of Jesus
28 Dec 2020 Dalai Lama
4 Jan 2021 Religion and Science in Schools


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