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Past programs

Sunday 16 November 2008

• First Hour: The right to die
  
• The Good Life: The life of a Sikh
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 9 November 2008

• Second Hour: Roy Williams, author of God, Actually
  
• First Hour: The US elections and the future of the Religious Right
  
• The Good Life: The life of a Baha'i
  

Monday 3 November 2008

• First Hour: Miracles
  Do you believe in Miracles?
• Second Hour: Dr John Capper
  
• Fourth Hour: Miracles (Encounter Programme)
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 26 October 2008

• First Hour: Growing up
  The issues facing adolescents today.
• Second Hour: Silma Ihram
  Founder of the Noor Al Houda Islamic College in Sydney.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 19 October 2008

• First Hour: Dissent and rebellion
  Dissent and rebellion within religious traditions: does challenging a tradition necessarily weaken it, or is dissent a necessary part for ongoing rejuvenation?
• Second Hour: Sara Roy
  Sara Roy has spent her career in Gaza, working for Palestinian rights.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 12 October 2008

• First Hour: Greed in a time of financial crisis
  The global financial crisis continues and, in a speech last week, PM Kevin Rudd blamed "the triumph of greed over integrity" for the situation.
• Second Hour: Clive Hamilton
  Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and public intellectual.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 5 October 2008

• First Hour: Am I an Islamophobe?
  The findings of a decade-long study on racism in Australia have just been released.
• Second Hour: Tony Jones
  Tony Jones is leading a new Christian church movement in the USA that has been growing over the last decade - often called Emerging Church.
• The Good Life: Eid el fitr
  Last Thursday was Eid el fitr, a celebration of the end of Ramadan, a month-long fast by Muslims.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 28 September 2008

• First Hour: Religious freedom, pregnancy terminations, and public policy
  The right of the medical Institution to set its own standards versus:
  The right of medical staff to concience versus:
  The right of the indidual patient to treatment versus:
  The right of the state to legislate and compel.
• Second Hour: Dr Paul O'Shea
  Paul O'Shea is a member of the NSW Council for Christians and Jews, a former Carmelite, and he has now completed his doctoral research on Pius XII and the Jews.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 21 September 2008

• First Hour: Religion and Australian Democracy
  
• Second Hour: Helen Bayes
  
• The Good Life: Vegetarianism
  Noel Debien in conversation with vegetarians secular and religious on the virtues of a meat-free diet, meeting Janardarna Das - chef at a Hare-Krishna restaurant, and discovering the tastes of a vegan Buddhist Thai restaurant with restauranteur Kijja Silanuluck.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 14 September 2008

• First Hour: Surviving Suicide
  More people die each day by suicide in Australia than by car accidents.
• Second Hour: Hugh McKay
  Hugh Mackay speaks on 'God and me'.
• The Good Life: The Life of a monk
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 7 September 2008

• First Hour: How useful is Prayer?
  
• Second Hour: John Lennox
  
• The Good Life: Muslims fasting and feasting at Ramadan
  Noel Debien in conversation with observant Muslim Diana Rahman, the leader of 'Australian Muslim Voices'; as well as an investigative mission to Abla's Middle-Eastern pastry shop...
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 31 August 2008

• First Hour: Heaven; who needs it?
  What happens after we die?
• Second Hour: Rev Fei Tevi
  
• The Good Life: St Teresa of Avila's Roast Chook.
  Noel Debien in conversation with Baptist theologian Simon Holt on food and the Christian.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 24 August 2008

• First Hour: Dr Jonathan Page
  
• Second Hour: Val Webb
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 17 August 2008

• First Hour: David Augsburger
  David Augsburger is a Mennonite Christian, one of those associated with the long radition of Peace Churches in the United states.
• Second Hour: Elizabeth Cham
  Elizabeth Cham is the daughter of Polish prisoners of war, born in a displaced persons camp in Germany on Christmas Day, 1948.
• Third Hour: Scientology (from the Religion Report)
  In the wake of Andrew Morton's biography Hollywood actor Tom Cruise the Religion Report's Stephen Crittenden looks at how Scientology uses Hollywood celebrities to get what it wants in Washington.
• Third Hour: Raimon Gaita (from the Religion Report with Stephen Crittenden)
  Australian philosopher Raimond Gaita gave the inaugural Common Good Lecture in March this year at the State Library of NSW - on Multiculturalism and the War on Terror.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 10 August 2008

• First Hour: Interfaith Dialogue
  There is a group of people in Australia getting on with the business of practical interfaith dialogue and reconciliation.
• Second Hour: Eddie Cole
  Australian singer-songwriter, whose latest album, Apocalypse Baby, has recently been released.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 3 August 2008

• First Hour: Modern Christian Orthodoxy
  What is it with contemporary Christianity?
• Meditation Episode 7: John Main
  
• Second Hour: Jennifer Zeng
  A Falun Gong practitioner who survived punishment for her beliefs in a Chinese Labour camp outside Beijing and who escaped to Australia.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 27 July 2008

• First Hour: Jim Wallis
  What are God's politics?
• Second Hour: Donal Godfrey SJ
  
• Meditation Episode 6 : Simone Weil
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 20 July 2008

• First Hour: World Youth Day 2008
  The party is over but reflections on WYD are just beginning.
• Second Hour: Amy-Jill Levine
  Amy-Jill Levine is an orthodox Jew and Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Department of Religious Studies, and Graduate Department of Religion.
• Meditation Episode 5 : Meister Eckhardt
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 13 July 2008

• First Hour: World Youth Day 2008
  This evening a truly global program, as we meet just a few of the visitors flooding into Australia for World Youth Day.
• Second Hour: John Haldane
  John Haldane one of the few philosophers who has introduced a new school into an ancient and cautious discipline.
• Meditation Episode 4: The Cloud of Unknowing
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 6 July 2008

• First Hour: The Anglican Communion
  Has the Anglican Church world wide fractured, and is the Anglican diocese of Sydney - at least partly- responsible for the Schism?
• Second Hour: Robert Blair Kaiser
  One of the great voices of religious journalism in the past 50 years.
• Meditation Episode 3 : Prayer of the Heart (Hesychasm)
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 29 June 2008

• First Hour: Wowserism
  Are restrictions by Government on artistic expression, binge drinking, and gaming machines a reflection of popular will or the whims of a puritan prime minister?
• Second Hour: Ben Witherington
  
• Postcard: Burma update
  
• Meditation Episode 2: Jesus
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 22 June 2008

• First Hour: Homelessness
  Homelessness has been with us for a long time and remains a major issue for Australia, despite the resources and economic boom of recent years.
• Second Hour: David Augsburger
  David Augsburger is a Mennonite Christian, one of those associated with the long radition of Peace Churches in the United states.
• Postcard: Tom Lewis
  Tom Lewis is an Murrungun man who, together with his wife, have set up an arts program for indigenous youth in their home town of Beswick in the Northern Territory.
• Meditation Episode 1: John Cassian
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 15 June 2008

• First Hour: Religious Education in State Schools
  
• Second Hour: Bishop Anthony Fisher O.P.
  
• Third Hour webcast: Phil and Sheila Smith
  Salvation Army members, Phil and Sheila Smith are both gifted musicians, who are visiting Australia at the moment.
• Fourth Hour webcast: Arthur Bridge AM
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 8 June 2008

• First Hour: Business Ethics
  All of us are subject to the variable winds of the economy and tonight we discuss the relationship between business and ethics.
• Second Hour: Tom Frame
  Author of Children on Demand: the ethics of defying nature.
• Postcard from China
  Medecins Sans Frontieres - in the heart of China's earthquake territory.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 1 June 2008

• First Hour: Reconciliation Week
  The 41st Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and the occasion of Lowitja O'Donaghue's retirment from public life.
• Second Hour: Dr Jonathan Page
  
• Third Hour webcast: Christopher Willcock S.J.
  
• Fourth Hour: Armando Salvatore
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 25 May 2008

• First Hour: Euthanasia
  A debate about dying that continues to injure the living - euthanasia.
• Second Hour: Philip F. Mangano
  Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
• Postcard: from Burma
  Noel Debien speaks with Brian Agland, CARE Australia's Country Director.
• Fourth hour webcast: Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 18 May 2008

• First Hour: The Federal Budget, Welfare and Social Equity
  If alcopops are all we have to complain about can there be much wrong with the Federal budget?
• Second Hour: Bishop Anthony Fisher O.P.
  
• Postcard: almost from Burma 2
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 11 May 2008

• First Hour: Anglicare
  The Anglican Church in Australia is often in the media through its contentious public squabbles over women's ordination or gay clergy.
• Second Hour: Valerie Browning, Queen of the Afar
  Australian nurse, Valerie Browning, lives the life of a tribal nomad with the pastoral people of the Afar Region of the Horn of Africa.
• Postcard: from Burma
  Noel Debien speaks with Sarah Ireland, Regional Director for Oxfam East Asia, Oxfam a week after cyclone Nargis struck Burma.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 4 May 2008

• First Hour: Gay Marriage
  We've just heard in the news the ACT Government is to water down its proposed civil unions legislation after failing to win support from the Federal Government.
• Second Hour: Phil and Sheila Smith
  Salvation Army members, Phil and Sheila Smith are both gifted musicians, who are visiting Australia at the moment.
• Postcard: from Jordan
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 27 April 2008

• First Hour: God and the Greens
  
• Second Hour: Archbishop Aghan Baliozian
  
• Postcard: from Laos
  Noel Debien speaks with Nami Nelson, CARE Australia's Provincial programme coordinator in Laos.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 20 April 2008

• First Hour: Australia 20/20
  The Ruddfest is over and the delegates are heading home.
• Second Hour: Sacred Places
  In the lead up to ANZAC Day, we meet three of Australia's leading writers on war and remembrance.
• Postcard: from Nepal
  Noel Debien speaks with Jenny Wells, Caritas Australia's Humanitarian Response Coordinator, and specialist in emergency response.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 13 April 2008

• First Hour: Homlessness
  
• Second Hour: Tabor College in Melbourne
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 6 April 2008

• First Hour: Human Trafficking
  
• Second Hour: Christopher Willcock S.J.
  
• Postcard: from Zimbabwe
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 30 March 2008

• First Hour: Difficulties facing Muslims in Australia
  As the Cronulla riots revealed, disaffected young people aren't unique to any particular culture.
• Second Hour: Elizabeth Cham
  Elizabeth Cham is the daughter of Polish prisoners of war, born in a displaced persons camp in Germany on Christmas Day, 1948.
• Postcard: from Papua New Guinea
  Noel Debien speaks with Julia Newton-Howes, CEO of CARE Australia.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 23 March 2008

• First Hour: Easterfest Toowoomba,
  For reasons of music copyright, the ABC is unable to podcast this hour.
• Second Hour: Christian Pop Culture: A Problem?
  For reasons of music copyright, the ABC is unable to podcast some of this hour.
• FINAL Hour: Building hope: One Brick at a Time
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Friday 21 March 2008

• PM Special Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
  
• First Hour: Sin and guilt- do we need them?
  
• Second Hour: Haunting Music from the past- the Rimini Manuscript of 1328
  
• Third Hour: From Psalm to Pop: What’s changed?
  
• Fourth Hour: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 16 March 2008

• First Hour: The Kingdom of God: is it all about now- or all about the here-after?
  
• Second Hour: Val Webb
  
• Postcard: from the Solomons
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 9 March 2008

• First Hour: Nature versus Nurture
  Are we already on our pre-determined way to heaven or hell the moment we are conceived?
• Second Hour: Richard Gill
  
• Postcard: from South Africa
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 2 March 2008

• First Hour: Exercising religious convictions within the political arena
  How do politicians of principle balance that against the exercise of real power?
• Second Hour: Arthur Bridge AM
  
• Postcard: from the Pacific
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 24 February 2008

• First Hour: Should Christian pastors be apologising to the Gay and Lesbian community?
  It's the 30th anniversay of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi-Gras - the parade that began as a homosexual rights protest and ended up a riot as police tried to arrest demonstrators.
• Second Hour: Danielle Strickland
  
• Postcard: from Indonesia
  Noel Debien speaks with Jordan Hofmann from CARE Australia who has been working on Simeulue island with CARE since December 2005.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 17 February 2008

• First Hour: Talkback on Mormonism
  Discussion about Mormonism: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Second Hour: Bishop Dawani
  The Anglican (Episcopal) Bishop of Jerusalem, Bishop Suheil Dawani, is currently visiting Australia.
• Postcard: from Bangladesh
  Noel Debien speaks with Jack de Groot, Chief Executive Officer of Caritas Australia, the Catholic Agency for International Aid and Development.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 10 February 2008

• First Hour: Talkback on Islam and Sharia Law
  Discussion about Sharia law and its place in Western democracies.
• Second Hour: Margie Cook
  Margie Cook, a civil rights activist, has just spent several months in Africa, as part of the international group involved in the recent elections in Kenya.
• Postcard: from New Guinea
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 3 February 2008

• First Hour: Talkback on Interfaith dialogue
  Practical Ecumenism between Catholics and Anglicans in the Broken Bay and Newcastle area.
• Second Hour: The Tallis Scholars Summer School
  The leader and members one of of the world's most acclaimed choirs (The rock stars of Renaissance vocal music according to the New York Times) sets up for Summer school with 55 aspiring Australians.
• Postcard: from the Makina Clinic in the Kibera slum around Nairobi
  Noel Debien speaks again with Dr Andrew Otieno who founded and runs the Makina clinic within Nairobi's Kibera slum.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 27 January 2008

• First Hour: Prof Michael Frost
  
• Second Hour: Rachael Kohn speaks with Michael Green
  Homosexuality, religious beliefs and a history of psychiatric treatment combine to make Michael Green's account of his life a cocktail of guilt and suffering.

Sunday 20 January 2008

• Fisrt Hour: Paul Brock
  
• Second Hour: Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
  

Sunday 13 January 2008

• Fisrt Hour: David Batstone
  
• Second Hour: " Earth, my mother"
  Producer Gary Bryson contemplates Hinduism, possibly the only religion in the world that has a special hell for people who chop down trees.

Sunday 6 January 2008

• First Hour: Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins
  Senior Rabbi at Emanuel synagogue Woollhara (Sydney), member of the association of Conservative rabbis and Army chaplain.
• Second Hour: Rachael Kohn investigates Spirtiuality and Health
  When you've lived with HIV/AIDS as long as Steven Dewhirst has, it's not only the medication that works, but the spiritual values that give him a desire to live.

Sunday 16 December 2007

• Talkback: Interfaith Dialogue
  
• Second Hour: Brett Walker and David Millikan
  
• Postcard: Bali
  Hagar Cohen speaks to Charlotte Sterrett from Oxfam in Bali.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 9 December 2007

• Talkback: The future of children's Television
  
• Second Hour: Claire Foster and David Shreeve
  
• Postcard: Papua New Guinea
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 2 December 2007

• Talkback: Did the ethics argument led to the defeat of the Liberal party?
  
• Second Hour: Armando Salvatore
  
• Postcard: Cambodia
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 25 November 2007

• Talkback: The State of the Catholic Church
  
• Second Hour: Richard Connolly
  
• Postcard: Kampala
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 18 November 2007

• Talkback: Election campaign and religion
  
• Second Hour: Jack De Groot
  
• Postcard: ButaJira
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 11 November 2007

• Talkback: The ANZAC legend
  
• Postcard: Aceh
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 4 November 2007

• Talkback: Workchoices and Social Justice
  
• Second Hour: Lin Hatfield-Dodds
  
• Postcard: Solomon Islands
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 28 October 2007

• Talkback: Gambling
  
• Second Hour: Mark Evans
  
• Postcard: West Bank
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 21 October 2007

• Talkback: Religion and the Federal election
  
• Second Hour: Fay Sussman and Pourandokht Naseri
  
• Postcard: Child trafficking in Cambodia
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 14 October 2007

• Talkback: Gender equality
  
• Second Hour: Steve Chalke
  
• Postcard: Carbon Marchers
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 7 October 2007

• Talkback: The spirit of generation Y
  
• Second Hour: Debbie Kilroy
  
• Postcard: Burma
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 30 September 2007

• Talkback: Chocolate and Slavery
  
• Second Hour: Sally Bingham; Muriel Porter
  
• Postcard: Mission of Hope
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 23 September 2007

• Talkback: Religious minorities and holidays
  
• Second Hour: Desmond O'Grady
  
• Postcard: East Timor
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 16 September 2007

• Talkback: Population control vs population growth
  
• Second Hour: Phillip Adams
  
• Postcard: Carteret Islands
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 9 September 2007

• Talkback: Australian values and the citizenship test
  
• Second Hour: Rabbi David Rosen
  
• Postcard: Nepal
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 2 September 2007

• Talkback: Same-sex couples
  What should a "fair-go" be in Australia these days?
• Second Hour: Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
  
• Second Hour: Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
  
• Postcard: APPEC
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 26 August 2007

• Talkback: Faith based vs public schools
  
• Second Hour: Brother Richard Carter
  
• Postcard: Cambodia
  Hagar Cohen speaks to Kirsen Bailey in Cambodia.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 19 August 2007

• Talkback: Work Life Balance
  Prime Minister John Howard once described it as 'a barbecue stopper'.
• Second Hour: Bishop Kevin Manning
  
• Postcard: Bangladesh
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 12 August 2007

• Talkback: John Howard and Kevin Rudd address the Australian Christian Lobby
  
• Second Hour: Prof Michael Frost
  
• Postcard: China
  Hagar Cohen speaks with Mark Allison from Amnesty International in Hong Kong, and Vincent Brossel from Reporters without Borders in France.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 5 August 2007

• Talkback: Is there a crisis in the Catholic church?
  
• Second Hour: John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
  John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu is the second most senior figure in the international Anglican communion, the 97th (but first black) Archbishop of York; and a former High Court judge from Uganda.
• Postcard: East timor
  Noel Debien Speaks with Oxfam's Program Manager in Timor Leste, Keryn Clark.

Sunday 29 July 2007

• Talkback: What needs to be done to create a just society?
  
• Second Hour: Religion Round table
  Leading producers and presenters from the ABC's uniquely secular and independent Religion Department meet to discuss Religious Current Affairs and issues.
• Postcard: Papua New Guinea
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 22 July 2007

• Talkback: Whatever Happened to sunday school?
  Why the current controversy over Steiner education programmes in Victorian state schools?
• Second Hour: Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins
  Senior Rabbi at Emanuel synagogue Woollhara (Sydney), member of the association of Conservative rabbis and Army chaplain.
• Postcard: Sudan
  Noel Debien speaks with CARE's Liz McLaughlin on the flood crisis.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 15 July 2007

• Talkback: Who was Rudolf Steiner?
  Why the current controversy over Steiner education programmes in Victorian state schools?
• Second Hour: Greg Thompson
  
• Postcard: Kenya and Tanzania
  Noel Debien speaks with Caritas's Scott Martin.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 8 July 2007

• Talkback: Religion and extremism
  
• Second Hour: Guy Sebastian
  
• Postcard: Indigenous health
  Noel Debien speaks with Oxfam's Lisa Briggs on the "closing the gap" project for indigenous health in Australia.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 1 July 2007

• Talkback: The latest Census- how is religion stretching in the demographics?
  
• Second Hour: The Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Choir
  
• Postcard: Cambodia
  Noel Debien speaks with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency's David Cowled - where he leads ADRA's programmes in Siemreap.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 24 June 2007

• Talkback: Amnesty International on women and abortion
  
• Second Hour: Bishop Alexis Bilindabagabo
  
• Postcard: Mongolia
  Noel Debien speaks with World Vision's Tim Hooper in Ulaanbaatar - where he heads Worldvisions micro-finance arm- Vision Fund.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 17 June 2007

• Talkback: The Green Cross; political PR or band-aid for the planet?
  
• Second Hour: Barrie Gott
  
• Postcard: East Timor
  Noel Debien speaks with Caritas's Mark Green for an update on aid and development work in East Timor as election fever begins in the world's newest independent state.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 10 June 2007

• Talkback: The Government and Charities; silencing dissent
  
• Second Hour: Margaret Somerville
  
• Postcard: "Make Poverty History "
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 3 June 2007

• Talkback: Surviving suicide
  
• Second Hour: Dr Keith Suter
  
• Postcard: Darfur in Sudan
  Noel Debien seaks with Paul Barker - Country director for C.A.R.E.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 27 May 2007

• Talkback: On the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum
  
• Second Hour: Brian Gore
  Australian Columban Brian Gore; now 37 years as a missionary priest; once charged with multiple murder under the Marcos dictatorship, now provincial leader of the Columbans in the Philippines.
• Postcard: Afghanistan
  Jamie Terzie- Assistant Country director for C.A.R.E.
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 20 May 2007

• Talkback: Are Australian churches growing?
  
• Second Hour: Salvation Army Commissioners James and Carolyn Knaggs
  
• Postcard: Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  

Sunday 13 May 2007

• Talkback: Interpreting the Bible
  
• Second Hour: Pius Ncube
  
• MUSIC and Extra DETAILS
  
• Postcard: Indigenous Health
  Noel Debien speaks with Ernie Bridge, founder and president of "Unity of first people of Australia" which runs the Diabetes and Management Care programme with Caritas, Australia.

Sunday 6 May 2007

• Talkback: "Fair Trade" or "Free Trade"?
  
• Second Hour: OT Chronicles of the Old Testament
  A contemporary and confronting theatrical re-imagining of five key Hebrew testament stories: the Song of Songs, Jacob and his sons, Lot, Noah, and the Creation.
• Postcard: Jordan's Iraqi refugees
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 29 April 2007

• Talkback: Divorce comes to the Assemblies of God
  
• Second Hour: Paul Brock
  
• Postcard: Gizo island in the Solomons
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 22 April 2007

• Talkback: Affordable Housing
  
• Second Hour: Ray Gingerich
  
• Postcard: Cambodia
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 15 April 2007

• Talkback: Has the Christian story lost its puff?
  
• Second Hour: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
  
• Episode 6 in our Kabbalah Meditation series: Angelic energies
  
• Postcard: The Solomons
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 8 April 2007

• Easter Sunday:The Australian Gospel Music Festival
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Friday 6 April 2007

• Talkback: Why do bad things happen to good people?
  
• Second Hour: Lord Robert Winston
  Robert Winston speaks with John Cleary on the eve of ABC TV airing his three-part documentary series on the history of the human quest to understand God.
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 1 April 2007

• Talkback: I was in prison and you visited me
  
• Second Hour: David Batstone
  
• Episode 5 in our Kabbalah Meditation series: Music and Chanting
  Deeper reality through music and chanting in the tradition of Chabad Hasidism.
• Postcard: Kenya
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 25 March 2007

• Talkback: The ethics of War and the role of Chaplains
  Does he who pays the piper call the tune?
• Second Hour: John Dear Jesuit Activist
  Practitioner and teacher of nonviolence.
• Episode 4 in our Kabbalah Meditation series: Contemplative Repose
  Repose in the tradition of Chabad Hasidism.
• The West Bank/ Palestine
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 18 March 2007

• Talkback: Muslims and non-Muslims in Australia
  
• Second Hour: Dr Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia
  
• Episode 3 in our Kabbalah Meditation series: Compassion and the four levels of Creation
  
• Postcard: Indigenous Health in Australia
  Noel Debien speaks with Mona Phillips, programme Manager for the Gulf regional Health – based at Mount Isa.

Sunday 11 March 2007

• Talkback: Whatever happened to the Burdekin Report on Homelessness?
  
• Second Hour: Sean McDonagh
  
• Episode 2 in our Kabbalah Meditation series: Aleph
  
• Postcard: East Timor
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 4 March 2007

• Talkback: the Christian churches and ethical teaching on homosexuality
  
• Second Hour: Mary O'Hara
  
• Episode 1 in our Kabbalah Meditation series: Breath; foremost expressor of the soul
  Meditation in a Jewish tradition of breathing and focussing.
• Postcard: Leprosy Mission Australia
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 25 February 2007

• Talkback: on Australian Muslim Youth
  
• Second Hour: B.A.Santamaria
  Patrick Morgan, Editor of the selected letters of B.A.Santamaria.
• Postcard: Caritas launches Project Compassion
  John Cleary speaks with Liz Stone and Dr Anwara Begum Shelly on the occasion of the launch of Caritas's annual "Project Compassion" appeal.
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 18 February 2007

• Talkback: When Religion turns bad
  
• Second Hour: The Most Rev. Philip Freier
  
• Postcard: Ben Fraser from Oxfam in flooded Jakarta
  Noel Debien speaks with Ben Fraser, programme coordinator for Oxfam in Jakarta where serious flooding has made hundreds of thousand of people homeless.
• John Main: Final episode in our Laurence Freeman Meditation Series
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 11 February 2007

• Talkback: Homelessness
  
• Second Hour: Ross Gittins
  
• Postcard: Tulku Rose, the Daylesford Community and Emily Jordan House
  Noel Debien speaks with Tulku Rose, who with the Daylesford community has purchased a house in Kagiso, South Africa for people living with HIV/AIDs.
• Simone Weil : Episode 6 in our Laurence Freeman Meditation Series
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 4 February 2007

• Talkback: When politics, faith and money mix - who calls the tune?
  
• Second Hour: Peter Phillips
  Director of the Tallis Scholars - once described by the New Times as the "Rock Stars" of Renaissance music".
• Postcard: Jamii Bora Trust in Kenya
  
• Meister Eckhardt : Episode 5 in our Laurnece Freeman Meditation Series
  
• Meister Eckhardt : Episode 5 in our 2nd Meditation Series
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  

Sunday 28 January 2007

• The Cloud of Unknowing: Episode 4 in our 2nd Meditation Series
  

Sunday 21 January 2007

• Prayer of the Heart : (Hesychasm) : Episode 3 in our 2nd Meditation Series
  

Sunday 14 January 2007

• Jesus: Episode 2 in our 2nd Meditation Series
  

Sunday 7 January 2007

• St John Cassian: Episode 1 in our 2nd Meditation Series
  

Sunday 10 December 2006

• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Talkback: Suburban Stress
  
• Second Hour: Barry Jones AO
  
• Episode 5 in our Augustinian Meditation Series
  

Sunday 3 December 2006

• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Talkback: The Australian Soul
  
• Second Hour: Alexander McCall-Smith
  
• Episode 4 in our Augustinian Meditation Series
  

Sunday 26 November 2006

• Talkback: Human Trafficking
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Second Hour: Margaret Visser
  
• Postcard: Adam Elliot in the Solomons
  
• Episode 3 in our Augustinian Meditation Series
  

Sunday 19 November 2006

• Talkback: Make Poverty History
  
• Episode 2 in our Augustinian Meditation Series
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Second Hour: Professor Greg Dening
  John speaks with one of Australia's most eminent Historians, Emeritus Professor Greg Dening, long associated with Melbourne University.

Sunday 12 November 2006

• Talkback: The Greening of God
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Second Hour: Sister Nancy Murray
  John speaks with the delightful Sister Nancy Murray, Dominican nun and sister of actor Bill Murray, about her family, her faith and her one woman stage show: a spellbinding portrayal of St Catherine of Siena.
• Postcard: Tricia DiGiovanni in Iraq
  
• Episode 1 in our Augustinian Meditation Series
  

Sunday 29 October 2006

• Talkback: Islam in the modern world
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Second Hour: Sam Totten
  
• Postcard: Megan Tucker in Vietnam
  Emma Hoff Williams speaks with Megan Tucker, Health Program Officer for Care Australia.

Sunday 22 October 2006

• Talkback: Future Church
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Second Hour: Tribute to Sydney Carter; Dirk Ficca - Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
  
• Postcard: Jonathan Treagust in Papua New Guinea
  Emma Hoff Williams speaks with Jonathan Treagust, World Vision’s Country Program Officer for Papua New Guinea and Thailand.

Sunday 15 October 2006

• Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Second Hour: Imam Dr Abduljalil Sajid
  
• Postcard: Child blindness in Bangladesh
  Last week saw World Sight Day.

Sunday 8 October 2006

• Ageing, disability and spirituality
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Christian Comedy Network
  We hear excerpts from a Christian Comedy Network performance held at the Princess Theatre, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, on Friday, October 6, by comedians Dean Barker, Mark Gladman and Howard Langmead.
• Postcard: Slum Survivor
  

Sunday 1 October 2006

• All creatures great and small
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Bishop Riah - Religion and Peacemaking
  Opinions on ways to find a solution to the conflict in the Middle East are as numerous as the people you might ask to express one … tonight, a perspective on the Middle East from someone who’s very much on the inside of things.
• Postcard: Mike Bird from Oxfam
  

Sunday 24 September 2006

• 50 years of television: the religious experience
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Second Hour - 'Make Indigenous Poverty History'; Anglicare's 'State of the Family' 2006 report
  
• Postcard: Archbishop Adrian Doyle in East Timor
  

Sunday 17 September 2006

• Socratic Forum: Should politics and religion mix?
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Feature Interview: Lionel Shriver
  
• Postcard: Joss Brooks in Auroville, India
  

Sunday 10 September 2006

• Talkback: St Vincent de Paul
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Feature Interview: Tony Robinson
  
• Postcard: Sam Totten on the situation in Darfur
  

Sunday 3 September 2006

• Talkback: Mutual Obligation
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Feature Interview: The Idea of North
  John speaks with one of Australia’s best vocal ensembles, The Idea of North.
• Postcard: Gio Tatti from Austcare in Cambodia
  

Sunday 27 August 2006

• Talkback: Religion - problem or solution?
  Does the world face the prospect of being held hostage by fundamentalisms, whether the Christian, Jewish, Islamic, or even Hindu?
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Feature Interview: Rabbi David Rosen
  Former Chief Rabbi of Ireland and one of the Presidents of the World Conference for Religion and Peace.
• Postcard: Megan Chisholm from Care Australia in Lebanon
  
• MEDITATIONS SERIES 2 EPISODE 6
  

Sunday 20 August 2006

• Talkback: Young Muslims and Australia
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Feature Interview: Wayne Swan
  
• Postcard: Fr Damian Fernando, Caritas - Sri Lanka
  
• MEDITATIONS SERIES 2 EPISODE 5
  

Sunday 13 August 2006

• Talkback: Generation Y and Religion
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Feature Interview: Barbara Ferguson
  
• Postcard: Marlene McIntyre - West Java
  On the 17th of July 2006, a tsunami hit the West Java coastline.
• MEDITATIONS SERIES 2 EPISODE 4
  

Sunday 6 August 2006

• Talkback: Australia's christian heritage
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Feature Interview: Baroness Shirley Williams
  Religion and politics through the eyes of a woman who has given her life to both in the mother of all parliaments.
• Postcard: Constantine Dabbagh
  Media coverage of the strife in the Middle East has focused on casualties and bombings in Southern Lebanon and Israel, as the war between Israel and Hezbollah continues.
• MEDITATIONS SERIES 2 EPISODE 3
  

Sunday 30 July 2006

• Talkback: The ethics and limits of civil disobedience
  
• Feature Interview: Graham McGeoch - inside Brazil's favelas
  Exploring life and faith in Brazil's favelas as experienced by one man who's married a Brazilian woman and chosen to live in one of the poorest favelas in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo.
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Postcard: Ruba Khoury
  Ruba Khoury is working with World Vision in southern Lebanon, an area heavily affected in the most recent Middle East crisis.
• MEDITATIONS SERIES 2 EPISODE 2
  

Sunday 23 July 2006

• Talkback: Interfaith Dialogue
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Feature Interview: Archbishop Roger Herft
  
• Episode 1 in our new Meditation Series: Science and the Buddha
  
• Postcard: Sonya Flemming
  Australian Sonya Flemming is working with Oxfam in one of our closest neighbours, Indonesia.

Sunday 16 July 2006

• Talkback: The future of the Uniting Church in Australia
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Feature Interview: Bernard Sabella
  
• Episode 7 (FINAL) in our Augustinian Meditation Series
  
• Postcard: Anglican Canon Gideon Byamugisha
  An openly HIV positive Anglican priest visiting Australia to speak against the stigma of AIDS in Africa.

Sunday 9 July 2006

• Talkback: Young Australians on Christianity
  
• Feature Interview, James Yee
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Episode 6 in our Augustinian Meditation Series
  
• Postcard: The Horn of Africa
  

Sunday 2 July 2006

• Talkback: Customary Law
  
• Feature Interview, Bill Himes O.F.
  
• MUSIC AND EXTRA DETAILS
  
• Episode 5 in our Augustinian Meditation Series
  
• Postcard: East Timor