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  • How ancient scrolls unlock lost worlds of the past

    October 22, 2026 · 55 min

    Across the Middle East, desert caves and ancient monasteries hid troves of ancient manuscripts. Now, advances in machine learning are helping scholars to unlock these ancient texts and the lost religious worlds that produced them.

  • Hildegard — The visionary music of medieval Europe's most remarkable woman

    October 15, 2026 · 55 min

    Saint Hildegard of Bingen is perhaps Medieval Europe's most remarkable woman. She was a prolific writer, a theologian, a mystic, and Europe's first known female composer. It been about 1000 years since she lived, but why is the music she…

  • Costa Georgiadis on trust and attention in the garden

    October 8, 2026 · 55 min

    Stories about gardening run deep in many cultures – from the garden of the gods in the epic of Gilgamesh, to the garden of Eden in the biblical book of Genesis. Gardening is also a practice that, for some people, connects the body, soil…

  • Wendell Berry's guide to a fulfilling low-tech life

    October 1, 2026 · 55 min

    In today's fast-paced, tech-saturated society, is it possible to live a life of fulfilment? Until his recent death, the writer, farmer and sustainability activist Wendell Berry believed that life's meaning came from cultivating the land…

  • The science and spirituality of compassion

    September 24, 2026 · 54 min

    In a world that prizes self-interest, is compassion a weakness? In 1992 the Dalai Lama asked a psychologist, instead of focusing only on negative emotions, why don't we study happiness and compassion? Now, the psychology of compassion has…

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  • The untold stories of Buddhism in Australia

    September 17, 2026 · 55 min

    When you imagine an Australian Buddhist, who do you think of? Buddhism in this country has a multicultural history which reaches back before federation and the White Australia Policy.

  • Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf on friendship, walking and the sacred spark in language

    September 10, 2026 · 55 min

    Yale professors Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf have been friends for years, through serious ups and downs. Together they discuss poetry, suffering and the divine — helping one another express the big things we encounter throughout our…

  • Australian poetry and the 'deep speech' of place

    September 3, 2026 · 55 min

    The Australian landscape comes up again and again in Australian poetry — it's part of what makes poetry from this place so distinctive. So, how does the contemporary Australian poetry scene engage with the land, and how has it shaped the…

  • Soul Search

    August 27, 2026 · 55 min

    Contemporary religion and spirituality from the inside out.

  • Poetry that soars — from Rumi to Australia

    August 20, 2026 · 55 min

    Poetry is one of the world's most enduring artforms. It predates writing, and we’re still compelled to express our deepest thoughts through verse. What does poetry have to do with spirituality and the sacred — whether its big, mystical…

  • Zeus' Law — Hospitality in Homer's Odyssey

    August 13, 2026 · 55 min

    Underneath all the sex and violence of Homer's Odyssey, hospitality shines as a key theme. So, what does "Zeus' Law", outlining the responsibilities of hosts towards guests and strangers, have to teach us today, as our own society debates…

  • Katherine May on winter's transformative power

    August 6, 2026 · 55 min

    Some people love crisp winter mornings and bracing ocean swims — one of those people is author Katherine May, who says there are winter periods in life too. In her book Wintering, Katherine writes about her own cold and fallow seasons, and…

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Soul Search explores contemporary religion and spirituality from the inside out — what we believe, how we express it, and the difference it makes in our lives