Faith in the World Week 2016
Sunday 23rd to 30th October
What is Beauty?
From Sunday 23rd to Sunday 30th October, Faith in the World Week explores ideas of beauty and our relationship with it.
Throughout the week across Radio 2 and the 麻豆官网首页入口, listeners will hear powerful stories and thought-provoking interviews as it looks at what we mean by beauty. Questions asked include 'What qualities make someone beautiful?', 'Why does western culture exaggerate the importance of physical appearance whilst many people regard inner beauty as more important?', 'How is beauty measured in old age or disability?'.
As well as special programming on 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 2; 麻豆官网首页入口 Local Radio, Sunday Morning Live and 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 5 Live will also be celebrating Faith in the World Week.
Faith in the World on Radio 2
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Sunday 23rd October, 7am: Fern Britton sits in for Clare and launches this year鈥檚 Faith in the World Week. Guests include hijab-wearing model Mariah Idrissi, composer James MacMillan on the sound of beauty, music from Pink Martini and faith guest Dina Brawer.
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Wednesday 19th October, 12 noon: Katie Piper joins Jeremy for 鈥淲hat Makes Us Human鈥�. Thursday 27th October: Vanessa Feltz sits in and Barbara Want, our relationships expert, joins her for a special entitled 鈥淚 always thought I was ugly鈥�.
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Friday 21st October, 6.30am: Chris talks to Rev Kate Bottley about her quest to find out what beauty is really all about and the attitudes she encountered along the way.
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Tuesday 25th October 10pm: Rev. Kate Bottley explores the relationship between inner and outer beauty and what the world鈥檚 faiths teach about the effect our physical appearance has on our spiritual wellbeing.
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Guests provide thought-provoking contributions in Chris Evans and Vanessa Feltz鈥� shows throughout the week.
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Sunday 30th October, 6am: Diane Louise Jordan celebrates beauty through words and music.
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Sunday 30th October, 7am: Fern Britton closes Faith in the World Week with the founder of Models of Diversity, Angel Sinclair. Katie Knowles talks about raising awareness for disabled models. Artist Matthew Collings on what beauty looks like. Plus faith guest Chine McDonald and music from country singer Jess Clemons.
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