The Sacred
A podcast about the things we hold sacred, and how to talk to people different from ourselves.
Episode Archive
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#59 David Baddiel
David is a comedian, screenwriter, author and television presenter. He’s written novels for children and adults, the play ‘My Family: Not the Sitcom’, and the film ‘The Infidel’ among many other...
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#58 Beth O'Leary
Beth is a novelist and the author of WHSmith's book of the year The Flatshare. She studied English at Oxford and worked in publishing before leaving to write full time. Her next novel, out in Ap...
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#57 Sameer Rahim
Sameer is Managing Editor for Arts and Books at Prospect Magazine, and has been a judge for the Costa Poetry Book Prize, the Forward Prize for Poetry and the Orwell Prize for non-fiction.
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#56 Richard and Lydia Ayoade
In this episode you’ll hear our very first episode with a married couple, Richard and Lydia Ayoade (Lydia is also known as Lydia Fox). Richard will be familiar to many of you as an actor, direct...
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#55 Daniel Finkelstein
Daniel is Baron Finkelstein, a Member of the House of Lords, and has a column in The Times newspaper. He is a former executive editor of The Times and advisor to John Major and William Hague.
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#54 Elizabeth Oldfield
Welcome to a special second birthday episode! This week we have turned the tables and former guest, Ian Dunt, has come in to interview host Elizabeth Oldfield. After putting her guests through t...
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#53 Sally Phillips
This week’s episode features a speech from our Annual Lecture given by actor Sally Phillips. You may recognise her name from Smack the Pony, Veep, Clare in the Community, Bridget Jones’s Diary, ...
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The Sacred - Annual Lecture Announcement
This week, instead of a normal episode, we will be releasing the recording from tonight’s Theos Annual Lecture with Sally Phillips - actress, comedian, campaigner and former Sacred guest. We hop...
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#52 Gabriele Finaldi
Dr Gabriele Finaldi has been director of the National Gallery since August 2015. He was previously Deputy Director for Collections and Research at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, and prior...
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#51 Linda Woodhead
Note: we had some microphone issues with this episode, but we hope you'll listen as we deeply enjoyed the interview.
Linda is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Politics, Philos...