The Pearl of Great Price

Send us Fan Mail What essentially became the archetypal morality tale for Britain's period of Naval Supremacy. Most of the mutineers died fighting each other on Pitcairn Island, the last men standing repented and using the Ships Bible rebuilt their lives and converted the islanders.

Send us Fan Mail Some people describe it as the greatest poem in the English Language.  Today we look at the lament 'Paradise Lost' - by the idealistic Puritan John Milton. At the end of Cromwell's Commonwealth, and the restoration of the monarchy, impoverished and embittered today he sold the copywrite to his great poem

Send us Fan Mail Was William Shakespeare sending hidden messages to Catholics, at a time when in England to be a Catholic could be equated to treason?  We look at the evidence and examine the context today, on the day he was baptised in the Church of England in Stratford upon Avon. 

Send us Fan Mail We look at the life of Tiverton Preedy and the influence of the movement 'Muscular Christianity' on him.  He founded Barnsley FC who are now owned by a consortium of Chinese and Indian businessmen, and baseball legend Billy Beane. 

Send us Fan Mail Augustine of Hippo was one of the finest minds of the ancient world and became the preeminent Chruch Father. Today we mark his late baptism and the remarkable impact he has had on Christian thought and the Western Mind 

Send us Fan Mail Today we look at the significance of St George, and how the chapel named after him at Windsor became the home of the Order of the Garter.  One of the most prestigious and longest-lasting chivalric orders. 

Send us Fan Mail We look at how 'In God we Trust' eventually replaced 'ex pluribus unum' as the motto of the USA.  How the trauma of post-civil war destruction started to it being inscribed on coins. 

Send us Fan Mail Today we look at Terry Eagleton's Dwight H Terry Lectures at Yale University in 2009. With the title 'Faith and Fundamentalism: Is belief in Richard Dawkins necessary for Salvation? We also analyse the phenomenon of the so-called New Atheism

Send us Fan Mail He has been described as the greatest American Theologian. We look at Johnathan Edwards and his role in the Christian revivals which swept across the UK and its colonies in the 18th Century. Called the Great Awakening in America or the Evangelical Revival in Britain. 

Send us Fan Mail Pope Pius VII lived under the shadow of Napoleon Bonaparte, which led to him being crowned with a papier-mache papal tiara. Today we look at the story. 

Send us Fan Mail This is the story of one of the most popular saints  in England, who was key in nation-building as the Anglo-Saxons emerged from centuries of Viking conquest

Send us Fan Mail Described as the bloodiest civil war of all time, with casualties in their tens of millions.  Led by a self-proclaimed prophet who believed he was the Brother of Jesus Christ - we look at the Taiping Rebellion

Send us Fan Mail Called a prince amongst preachers, Surgeon attracted huge crowds to his services in London. After a tragic stampede in a temporary church we remember today how he moved to the purpose-built Metropolitan Tabernacle 

Send us Fan Mail Claiming to be the largest and oldest womans charitable group we look at the founding and the work of the Mormon Relief Society 

Send us Fan Mail We look at the story of Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross.  What inspired him?  Who signed the first Geneva Convention? What are the controversies around the Emblem used for the Red Cross? 

Send us Fan Mail Cardinal Manning was unusually a widow, and became very influential in Catholic Social Teaching - today we find out why. 

Send us Fan Mail Today we remember the journalist Morgan Stanleys success in finding the lost explorer Dr Livingstone.   And why did he become so famous after his death? 

Send us Fan Mail A sad story of the mass suicide of 200 pagan Lithuanians defending themselves against the Teutonic Knights today in 1336 

Send us Fan Mail Today we look at the birth of Charles Sheldon, his publication of In His Steps and the birth of the What Would Jesus Do movement 

Send us Fan Mail Today we remember the founding of the Labour party and the Methodist lay preacher Kier  Hardy

Send us Fan Mail Today we remember the founding of the Society of the Holy Cross, SSC by Charles Fuge Lowder, an Anglican order which worked in the slums of big cities

Send us Fan Mail We look at the life work of Methodist William Oldham, his work in mapping India and setting up Singapore's most prestigious school

Send us Fan Mail Today we look at the remarkable life of John Wesley, the beginning of Methodism and the death of 'the most loved man in Britain' 

Send us Fan Mail Today we look at the life of Dominican Hugh of St Cher, his work on producing the first concordance - a milestone in Biblical Studies,  and also the first attempt to divide the Bible into chapters

Send us Fan Mail Today King Charles II granted a royal charter to Quaker William Pen making him the largest (non-royal) landowner in the world.  Thus began his holy experiment of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.