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The Big Questions: Series 6

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The Big Questions: Series 6: Episode 1

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BBC One - The Big Questions, Series 6, Episode 1

Is the Pope right to condemn capitalism? Should children be created without fathers?

Is the Pope right to condemn capitalism? Should children be created without fathers? And can the Holy Spirit move you? Aarathi Prasad, Charles Foster and Jeremy Carrette debate.

Nicky Campbell presents The Big Questions from the Harris Academy in Peckham, south London. He asks: Is the Pope right to condemn capitalism?; Should children be created without fathers?; And can the Holy Spirit move you? 

Amongst those taking part are Jonathan Bartley from Ekkelsia; the Reform Rabbi, Laura Janner-Klausner; Abihjit Pandya from the LSE; the businesswoman, Christine Brown-Quinn; Charles Foster, medical law barrister; the geneticist, Aarathi Prasad; the former Lib-Dem MP, Dr Evan Harris; Dr Trevor Stammers, medical and bioethicist from St Mary's University College, London; Natalie Drew from the Gay Family Web Fertility Centre; Pastor Clement Okusi from Potters House Pentecostal Church; Michelle Moran from Catholic Charismatic Renewal; Jeremy Carrette, author of Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion; and Abdulla Al Andalusi from Muslim Debate Initiative.

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