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Chris Ledgard listens to the ways in which different preachers use the power of language to move their followers. In churches and in mosques, modernising forces are at work.

Chris Ledgard listens to the ways in which preachers use words and the power of language to move people, and visits churches and a mosque to find out about the modernising forces at work there.

Contributors:

The Rev'd Canon Simon Butler, St Mary's Church Battersea
Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra
Pastor Kasali Fatai, The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Bristol
Ruth Gledhill, The Times religious correspondent
Max Atkinson, author of Lend Me Your Ears

Producer Beth O'Dea.

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28 minutes

Last on

Mon 20 Aug 2012 23:00

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  • Tue 14 Aug 2012 16:00
  • Mon 20 Aug 2012 23:00

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