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Helen O'Sullivan
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Priest in the CofE, theological educator and supporting ministry in four rural churches. I love theatre, good books, long walks by the sea and am looked after by my bossy cat.
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Of course!
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Congratulations Jamie!
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Looking forward to this episode. I loved listening to Katherine’s series ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wonder’.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Thank you for sharing. Not come across this series before. What a great way to discover gems you might otherwise miss.
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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‘Climate, memory & the way the past haunts the present’

Count me in!
September 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I was thinking the same thing.
August 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Downloaded to listen to on plane journey home tomorrow.
August 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I’m so sorry to hear this Jon. Praying for the appeal.
June 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM