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323 episodes / 868K listens

Hymns as Poetry

Hymns as Poetry: John Milton’s Blest Pair of Sirens
Hymns as Poetry: William Blake’s Jerusalem

Lent and Easter reflections 2024

Lent and Easter reflections 2024: Easter Day
Lent and Easter reflections 2024: Holy Saturday
Lent and Easter reflections 2024: Maundy Thursday
Lent and Easter reflections 2024: Good Friday

Abbeycast

Abbeycast: Holy is his name - A podcast to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VJ Day, and the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Abbeycast: Come unto me - A podcast for the fourth Sunday after Trinity
Abbeycast: Tu es Petrus - A podcast for St Peter’s Day
Abbeycast: The Rewards of Hospitality - A podcast for Third Sunday after Trinity

Hope

A contemplation of Hope
What is Hope?
Charles Gore Memorial Lecture 2020: A Theology of Hope for the 21st Century
Hope in Society

Art, Imagination and Public Service

Symposium: Art as Public Service
Ruling from the Heart: the poet and the cabinet minister
Bureaucracy should be beautiful: the musician and the permanent secretary
Envisioning Justice: the painter and the judge

Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham

Sermon given by The Most Reverend Rino Fisichella at Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham
Lecture given by Eamon Duffy FBA at Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham
Sermon given at Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham Solemn Eucharist

A service to recognise fifty years of Continuous At Sea Deterrent

Leading Engineering Technician Edward Owen gives a Testimony
Rear Admiral Tim Hodgson MBE gives a Testimony
Isobel Fraser gives a Testimony
Address given by the Dean of Westminster at a service to recognise fifty years of Continuous At Sea Deterrent

Justice

Meanings of justice in law, philosophy and politics
The Charles Gore Lecture: Justice, Mercy and Remembrance
Westminster Lecture: Is a just society possible?
Westminster Lecture: Can institutions be just?

A Service of thanksgiving for the Lord Carrington

Address given by Lord Luce at the Lord Carrington thanksgiving service
Tribute to his father given by Lord Carrington

30th Annual Day of Prayer

30th Annual Day of Prayer - Waiting on God: Part 3 - Silence with the beloved
30th Annual Day of Prayer - Waiting on God: Part 2 - Hopeful prayer
30th Annual Day of Prayer - Waiting on God: Part 1 - Faith in worship

Kristallnacht 80th anniversary service

Leslie Brent's Testimony at A Service of Solemn Remembrance and Hope on the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
Freddie Knoller's Testimony at A Service of Solemn Remembrance and Hope on the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
Bea Green's Testimony at A Service of Solemn Remembrance and Hope on the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
Rabbi Baroness Neuberger's Reflection at A Service of Solemn Remembrance and Hope on the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

Embracing Global Challenges

Have the machines taken over?
Humanity's response
Has migration overwhelmed us?
Have we killed the planet?

Sir Peter Hall

Sir Trevor Nunn gives an address about Sir Peter Hall
Sir David Hare gives a tribute to Sir Peter Hall

Tributes to Professor Stephen Hawking

Lord Rees' tribute to Stephen Hawking
Tom Nabarro's tribute to Stephen Hawking
Professor Kip Thorne's tribute to Stephen Hawking

Truth

Truth Told
Truth Sustained
Truth Pursued
True Enough? Lies, Diplomacy and Politics

Democracy

Nick Clegg - The Coarsening of Political Language
The One People Oration 2017 - John Major: The Responsibilities of Democracy
Protest and Liberty: How the Reformation Shaped Modern Democracy

Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lectures

32nd Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture: Faith and Imagination
31st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture: The Sacred, the Profane and the Desecrated
30th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture- Blessed are the Hypocrites?
29th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture: Beyond Justice

Integrity

Serving the Public: Mission Impossible?
Integrity and the Modern Intellectual Tradition

In The Public Eye

One People Oration 2016 - Secret Service? National Security in an Age of Open Information
How Impartial? - A dialogue organised by the Westminster Abbey Institute
Press Freedom; Press Responsibility - A dialogue organised by the Westminster Abbey Institute

Combat Modern Slavery Service, 12th October 2016

Address given by Cardinal Nichols at the Combat Modern Slavery service, 12th October 2016
Address given by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the Combat Modern Slavery service, 12th October 2016
Address given by Prime Minister Theresa May at the Combat Modern Slavery service, 12th October 2016
Address given by the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner at the Combat Modern Slavery service, 12th October 2016

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