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Hardeep Singh Kohli sits in

Hardeep Singh Kohli sits in for Clare Balding and talks to scholar, writer and broadcaster Ziauddin Sardar whose new book, Mecca: The Sacred City, comes out soon.

Hardeep Singh Kohli sits in for Clare Balding and talks to scholar, writer and broadcaster, Ziauddin Sardar. His new book, 'Mecca: The Sacred City', published this month, is part travelogue, part history of the city and of the pilgrimage that all Muslims are called to make at least once in their lives.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Sun 28 Sep 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Stevie Wonder

    My Cherie Amour

  • Elvis Presley

    (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such As I

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.
  • Cat Stevens

    Morning Has Broken

    • The Very Best Of Cat Stevens.
    • Island.
  • Coldplay

    Clocks

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Jamie Cullum

    Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (feat. Gregory Porter)

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.
  • Alison Krauss

    When God Dips His Love In My Heart

  • The Corrs

    Old Town

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • The Fisherman鈥檚 Friends

    Cousin Jack

  • London Community Gospel Choir

    Down InThe River To Pray

  • Bruce Springsteen

    This Little Light Of Mine

  • Iskra String Quartet

    Jesu Joy

  • The Jacksons

    Show You The Way To Go

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • Janis Ian

    At Seventeen

    • (Single).
    • CBS.
  • Nigel Stonier

    I hope I always

  • Nigel Stonier

    Love in hope

  • Status Quo

    And It's Better Now (Aquostic Version)

    • Aquostic (Stripped Bare).
    • Rhino.
    • 1.
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Allah Hoo Allah Hoo

  • Red Sky July

    Losing You

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Bridge Over Troubled Water

    • Bridge Over Troubled Water.
    • Columbia.
  • 补鈥恏补

    Foot of the Mountain

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 3.

Ziauddin Sardar

Ziauddin Sardar

Ziauddin is a London-based scholar, writer, cultural-critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futures studies and science and cultural relations.聽 His latest book, Mecca: The Sacred City, Ziauddin unravels the significance of Mecca, traces its history, and shares his own personal experiences of the Hajj.

ISBN:听978-1408809204

Nigel Stonier

Nigel Stonier
Nigel Stonier is a producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter and has been in the music business聽since the 90s.聽 He has collaborated with the likes of聽Thea Gilmore, The Waterboys, Joan Baez, Martha Wainwright and聽Fairport Convention.聽 His fifth album "Built For Storms" was released in July 2014.

Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin

Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin
The Rev'd Rose Hudson-Wilkin is Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen and to the Speaker of the House of Commons. She's also kept busy with parish ministry with two churches in East London. She's married and mother to three children.

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Sep 2014 07:00