Heart and Soul

At the darkest time of the year in Iceland scary creatures come out to play. Storyteller Andri Snaer Magnason used to be... Read more

Marie-Louise Muir tells the story of the Nun Study; a pioneering study, started in America in the 1980s, which brought a... Read more

How is faith tested at our weakest and most vulnerable moments? When Caroline Wyatt was 12 years old she announced she w... Read more

Listeners may find some of the material in this programme upsetting. A grieving mother, Mally Simelane, is fighting to c... Read more

Charlottesville in the American state of Virginia, was thrust into the limelight in the late summer when white supremaci... Read more

In March 2017, a High Court Judge in Pakistan made the dramatic declaration that “blasphemers are terrorists.” The decla... Read more

The YouTube generation are re-inventing Kirtan, an ancient form of Sikh worship.Kirtan, the devotional singing of the Si... Read more

Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim country. There are hundreds of indigenous faiths, practised for centuries. They... Read more

Dotted around London, in the concentrated areas where Orthodox Jews have made their home, groups of believers meet to pr... Read more

Jerusalem is the most religiously contentious city in the worldOn the weekend that Easter coincides with Passover and af... Read more

Ibtihaj Muhammad has had many firsts in her career in fencing. An African American Muslim woman, she was the first athle... Read more

In Copenhagen, on an upmarket shopping street, above a burger joint, two female imams are leading Friday prayers. The M... Read more

They were a famous father-son team, perhaps the best known evangelical pastors in America. Tony and Bart Campolo spent d... Read more

Manika Bébhinn Ramsay’s husband, Alastair, died suddenly in 2007. Walking along an ancient pilgrim path, St.Kevin’s Way ... Read more

On the night the Grenfell Tower fire began on 14 June 2017, the mosques and churches which encircle the tower block in K... Read more

Uzbekistan - the most populous country in Central Asia is, is sometimes called the country of a hundred shrines or the “... Read more

The fastest growing religion in Iceland is Norse paganism. Floating in a hot spring, snow falling from the night sky, Jo... Read more

Worshippers are gathering for a church service led by Pastor D.J Soto in Virginia in the USA. Many of them are at home o... Read more

Three-thousand years ago, according to legend, a beautiful and wealthy queen embarked on a long journey to visit a celeb... Read more

To mark the 500th anniversary idea of Reformation which spilt Christianity, Heart and Soul investigates the role of wome... Read more