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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Frank Cottrell–Boyce on wonder, forgiveness and the writer's calling
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for his screenplays for 24 Hour Party People, Welcome to Sarajevo and others, his award–winning children’s books, including ...
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James Perry on interdependence and the purpose of business
James is co–chair and co–founder of COOK, the very fancy and very delicious frozen food company. He is also co–founder and board member of the B Corp, co–chairman of B Lab UK and a founding part...
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Jenn Ashworth on Mormonism, class and the universal experience of suffering
Jenn is an award-winning novelist, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Professor of writing at Lancaster University.
In this episode she speaks about her childhood Mormoni...
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Charlie Gilmour on fatherhood and the cost of writing a memoir
Charlie is a journalist and a critically acclaimed memoirist. His memoir, ‘Featherhood’ won all manner of awards. Charlie is the adopted son of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd and Polly Samson, who’...
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Vanessa Zoltan on radical hospitality, atheist chaplaincy and treating texts as sacred
Vanessa worked in education and nonprofits before attending Harvard Divinity School to become a non–denominational atheist chaplain. Whilst at Harvard she and Casper Ter Kuile who was also a gue...
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Rupert Read on nonviolence, the climate crisis and the power of emotions
Rupert is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is author of over a dozen books on philosophy and the climate crisis, and he was previously a spokesperson for...
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Minna Salami on feminism, racism and ‘sensuous knowledge’
Minna is a social critic, feminist theorist and poet, and she’s founder of the blog, MsAfropolitan. She’s the author most recently of ‘Sensuous knowledge: a black feminist approach for everyone’...
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Stuart Ritchie on scepticism, and the role and reliability of science
Stuart is a lecturer at the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. He's been a researcher in human cognitive abilities, and his most recent book is 'Scien...
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Eli Pariser on curiosity, the value of democracy and why we need shared public digital spaces
Eli Pariser has had a long and distinguished career in tech entrepreneurship and is currently running the organisation New Public, which is trying to help thinkers, designers and technologists b...
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Louise Perry on motherhood, consent and the case against the sexual revolution
Louise is a writer and campaigner. She has a weekly column in the New Statesman and is press officer for the campaign group 'We can’t consent to this', which documents cases in which UK women ha...