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Cyclones, earthquakes, famines - the litany of natural disasters is unrelenting. Some dominate the headlines and millions of people respond to appeals; others, just as costly in terms lives lost and communities wrecked, are barely noticed, the victims virtually invisible.

Why does this happen? What should be done about it? And to what extent does a religious faith shape the way we view such events?

In All Things Considered this week Roy Jenkins puts such questions to his panel of guests - the Methodist peer, the Rev. Dr. Leslie Griffiths, who began his ministry in Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world; the Rev Dr. John Weaver, principal South Wales Baptist College, a former geologist who writes on the relationship between faith and science; Dr. Geoff Lloyd, a GP in Pontypridd who is Co-ordinator of Pont, an organisation linking individuals and groups in Rhondda Cynan Taff with people in Uganda and Dominic Nutt, Head of News for Save the Children.

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