New season for Questions of our Times explores health and wellbeing

We’re very pleased to announce the fourth season of Questions of our Times, which will be broadcast on Premier Christian Radio in November. Over four Tuesdays, we’ll be exploring some of today’s big social questions with four public figures in the area of health and wellbeing.

In the first broadcast of the season (5 Nov), we’ll be talking with Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, who has ministered in the former coal mining communities of Country Durham, and in inner-city Liverpool, about how poverty affects the health of communities and individuals.

We then turn to Dame Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London (12 Nov), to ask whether health is more than skin-deep, exploring health and spirituality, the wellbeing of the NHS itself, and the questions around assisted dying.

In our third broadcast (19 Nov), the journalist and author Chine McDonald considers the question ‘Do our bodies shape who we are?’ and thinks about the beauty industry, the influence of social media, and the pressure to be beautiful.

In our final evening (26 Nov), we’ll be talking with Dr Claire Gilbert, whose life has been spent in medical ethics, about the big ethical questions of today, such as big pharma, stem-cell research, gene therapy and AI.

Our guests in Questions of our Times will do some thinking out loud with the help of journalist and series host Major Nigel Bovey, former editor of the Salvation Army newspaper The War Cry. As in our previous seasons, each evening will end with questions from listeners. Each evening will be broadcast live on radio, but will be made available soon afterwards as a video conversation.

The four conversations will be broadcast at 1pm each Tuesday lunchtime, with a nighttime repeat at 10pm the same day.

The videos from the first three seasons of Questions of our Times, which covered the areas of physics, the environment, racial justice, truth in journalism, astrophysics, the relevance of Jesus to modern life, health and wholeness, social robotics, and the religion and science debate, are available to view on the link above.

Questions of our Times is produced by the Christian Evidence Society and Premier Christian Radio, and is made possible with the support of the Montgomery Trust.

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