Heart and Soul

Heart and Soul is a weekly half-hour programme that has the scope and understanding to explore different experiences of spirituality from around the world. Whether examining religious faith or any other belief-system, the programme talks to believers and non-believers, and tries to get beyond superficial notions of spirituality and religion.

The Church's slave plantation: Part one
Apr 21, 2023 – 27:08
Sikhism’s lost song
Apr 14, 2023 – 27:09
Clergy in cartel land
Apr 7, 2023 – 27:06
Purity to nudity
Mar 31, 2023 – 27:04
My hijab or my sport
Mar 24, 2023 – 26:28
An instrument speaking to the infinite
Mar 17, 2023 – 27:46
Two Rabbis, worlds apart in Israel
Mar 15, 2023 – 26:29
Coming out of the Ifá closet
Mar 2, 2023 – 26:28
Stripped of my spirituality
Feb 17, 2023 – 26:29
The cost of being an atheist in Nigeria
Feb 10, 2023 – 26:25
The Right Thing: Framed by my brother
Feb 3, 2023 – 27:18
The Right Thing: Opposing sexual violence as a weapon of war
Jan 27, 2023 – 27:58
The Viking priest
Jan 20, 2023 – 27:32
The battle for souls in Nepal
Jan 13, 2023 – 26:28
Pope Benedict XVI: A life and legacy
Jan 9, 2023 – 26:29
Thich Nhat Hanh’s censored legacy
Jan 2, 2023 – 26:29
Christmas with the cooking priest
Dec 26, 2022 – 26:29
The Iran protests
Dec 19, 2022 – 26:28
Poland's Jews: Caught between, never home
Dec 9, 2022 – 27:57
Arizona's desert crosses
Dec 2, 2022 – 26:29
Turtle Island and the Black Snake
Nov 25, 2022 – 28:12
One scoop or two
Nov 18, 2022 – 27:55
Dying in Varanasi
Nov 11, 2022 – 27:50
Me, my autism and cults
Nov 4, 2022 – 26:28
Diwali in Leicester
Oct 21, 2022 – 26:28
From riches to religion
Oct 14, 2022 – 26:29
God and hip-hop
Sep 30, 2022 – 26:29
Spiritualism and the soul
Sep 23, 2022 – 26:29
Green Islam
Aug 26, 2022 – 27:50
Hindus, hate and hashtags
Aug 19, 2022 – 27:22
The last Afghan Sikhs
Aug 12, 2022 – 26:29
Qawwali: Music of the soul
Aug 12, 2022 – 26:29
The bible, black women and Brazil
Aug 5, 2022 – 26:29
The Deadly Sacrifice at Hawkes Bay
Jul 29, 2022 – 26:28
How do I explain this?
Jul 22, 2022 – 27:39
Conversion Norway-style
Jul 15, 2022 – 27:09
No country for Azov Greeks
Jul 8, 2022 – 27:25
Faith in science
Jul 1, 2022 – 27:11
LGBTQ+: Religion and me
Jun 10, 2022 – 26:29
After ISIS: Reviving the Jewish history of Mosul
May 27, 2022 – 26:29
Finding faith on a warship
May 20, 2022 – 27:11
Kenya's last great Laibon
May 13, 2022 – 27:20
Faith in journalism
May 6, 2022 – 27:29
Not even water?
Apr 29, 2022 – 27:21
Emancipation, assimilation and Jewish identity
Apr 22, 2022 – 27:29
Ukraine: Faith in a time of war
Apr 15, 2022 – 27:19
Saving Albania's trafficked victims
Mar 25, 2022 – 27:49
Young Hindus
Mar 18, 2022 – 27:21
Germany's turbulent priest
Mar 13, 2022 – 27:06
The Sikh whistleblower
Feb 25, 2022 – 27:29

Recent Reviews

Ayeattslonske

Perfect

I am so glad this podcast exists! I don’t know any other religion podcasts that are such a perfect mixture of facts & personal interest. I learn so much every time! Thank you.
Tonkaheimer

Jonestown

Excellent doc about Jonestown. Kudos to Erin Martin for a well researched and thoughtful program.
Erica0987

Erin Martin Jonestown Episodes

What an awesome host! Must listen!
Stoneham Mel

Depth and fascination for the ear and mind

Heart & Soul offers views into cultures and lives one cannot find anywhere else today. It combines the skill of excellent, perceptive news reporters with equally excellent planning, ambient sound capture and reproduction, and - clearly - a lot of diligent advance work by many sensitive and intelligent researchers. Memorable past programs include the incredible story of pianist Alice Herz Sommers, an analysis of the Hebrew prayer for the dead, the Kaddish, and more. I am on my way to Istanbul this week, and was thrilled to hear live this morning the third part of the series, "The Bosphorus" - and am downloading the series to my iPad so my partner and I can listen to it on the flight over. This, and "Witness," are two of my very favorite podcasts - download them, and they will be yours, too.