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Religion & Ethics

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

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Something Understood: Piety

Embracing the Classical

19/03/2017

Piety

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Piety

In the season of Lent, Mark Tully debates the achievability of religious piety.

Mark Tully asks how achievable true piety is. Pious observance is particularly important for Christians during Lent, but do we still understand what is meant by 'living piously'?

What do we mean by piety? And how hard is it now to live a pious life? In this programme for Lent, Mark Tully debates humility, religious observance, duty, hypocrisy, backsliding and the relationship between ritual and pious living. 

There are readings from the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, Spanish poet Nicolas Suescun and writer and anthropologist Saba Mahmood, along with music from Anton Bruckner, John Rutter and The Mavericks.

The readers are Jasper Britton and Shaheen Khan.

Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling

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