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The pressure on teenage girls, churches lighting up for 2012, Focus 12, intolerance and God v Science.

This week's Pop Pulpit explores the pressure on teenage girls, a Lib Dem Lord gives a historical warning over religious intolerance and a Suffolk author wins the Ultimate Christian Library Book.

This week's Pop Pulpit explores the pressure on teenage girls, a Lib Dem Lord gives a historical warning over religious intolerance and a Suffolk author wins the Ultimate Christian Library Book award for her children's bible.

There's also how Suffolk's churches are preparing to light up for the Olympics and does faith have a place in science teaching?

In the Pop Pulpit this week, the Rev Andrew Dotchin, the Vicar of Whitton goes back to a 1975 Grammy Award winning song.

He says At Seventeen by Janice Ian has just as much relevance for today's young people.

Rob's guest is Mark Wallace, an elder at the High Street Chapel in Hopton, an independent church started 100 years ago.

There's more from Rhys Walters, a former client of Focus 12 in Bury St Edmunds, on his journey to be free from addiction.

There's also the Suffolk winner of the Ultimate Christian Library Book, Andrea Skevington.

She won the Children's title for 'The Lion Classic Bible', illustrated by Sophy Williams.

The former Liberal Democrat MP and member of the house of Lords, David Alton, said the deaths of Christians in the past, should serve as a reminder today - of where State intolerance and the "crushing of conscience" might lead.

The brutal killings of tens of thousands of Catholics in Tudor and Elizabethan times were highlighted this week as a warning for the future in Britain.

3 hours

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  • Sun 13 May 2012 06:00