Welcome to this new BBC podcast. The first episode will be published within seven days.
Neil MacGregor's series continues with a focus on our relationship with the dead.
Neil MacGregor focuses on the protection of the newly-born and their mothers.
Neil MacGregor focuses on rites of passage, including a hair-binding ritual from Vanuatu.
Neil MacGregor focuses on prayer, an individual activity that is also profoundly communal.
Neil MacGregor reflects on his 30-part series, Living With The Gods.
Greg Jenner introduces the new series of his BBC history podcast, You're Dead To Me.
Living with the Gods
Here Comes the Sun
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor focuses on light: the sunrise on the winter solstice in the passage tomb at Newgrange, Ireland, and the story of Amaterasu, Japanese sun goddess, who hid in a cave. Show more
Living with the Gods
Living with the Dead
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a focus on our relationship with the dead. Show more
Living with the Gods
Water of Life and Death
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor focuses on water, an essential part of religious practice in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and reports from Varanasi, India, on the role of the Ganges in Hinduism Show more
Living with the Gods
Fire and State
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor focuses on perpetual fire in the Temple of Vesta in Rome, the Parsi fire temple in Gujarat, India, and the Flame of the Nation under the Arc de Triomphe, Paris. Show more
Living with the Gods
The Beginnings of Belief
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor begins his series on the role and expression of shared beliefs in communities around the world with the Lion Man, an ivory sculpture which is about 40,000 years old. Show more
Living with the Gods
Mother and Child
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor focuses on the protection of the newly-born and their mothers, including St Margaret, patron saint of childbirth, and the role of protective omamori in Japan. Show more
Living with the Gods
Becoming an Adult
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor focuses on rites of passage, including a hair-binding ritual from Vanuatu. Show more
Living with the Gods
The House of God
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor focuses on the creation of sacred spaces built for engagement with the divine, including a 4,000-year-old temple in Mesopotamia and a new cathedral in Kenya. Show more
Living with the Gods
To Be a Pilgrim
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor focuses on the role of pilgrimage in Christianity, Buddhism and Islam. Show more
Living with the Gods
Holy Killing
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor focuses on Aztec human sacrifices, and animal sacrifice in ancient Greece. Show more
Living with the Gods
Gifts to the Gods
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor focuses on offerings, including gifts to the goddess Athena at the Parthenon in ancient Greece, and gold figures consigned to the waters of Lake Guatavita, Colombia. Show more
Living with the Gods
Living with No Gods
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor considers the attempts of post-revolutionary France and the USSR to exist without religion - and asks if one set of shared beliefs needs to be replaced by another. Show more
Living with the Gods
Global Gods, Local Needs
14 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Neil MacGregor on how gods reach new communities, and how they are adapted and changed. Show more