Understanding Prayer – Something Understood

In this week’s Something Understood on Radio 4, Mark Tully talked to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, about his personal understanding of prayer… and it is one of the best descriptions of prayer that I’ve heard in ages.
He talks of prayer as stilling your body and imagination, which aid communion with God and [...]

The road not taken

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Being awoken by a baby early in the morning can have its benefits… one such benefit was discovering Radio 4’s Something Understood programme last year. Each week it looks at “some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and [...]

George W condensed

Well radio silence from my blog is being interrupted with a quick note about The Condensed History of George W Bush on BBC Radio 4 last night. Very funny look at the George W years in 15 mins… it’s kind of predictable but nicely done…
Adam Long, co-founder of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, joins two [...]