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United Kingdom
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Intelligent Christian broadcasting, by design.
Twitter:
@small_voice1
Language:
English
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Website:
http://www.smallvoice.org.uk/
Episodes
Civil War and death!
5/6/2024
Hello faithful listener, it’s right there in the title – in this podcast we give you Civil War and death! Well, Darren and Holly review the new movie, Civil War, and we pick up some thoughts about death, grief and funerals. So, nice and light and breezy. The continuation of …
Duration:00:53:06
sv podcast – therapy dogs are go!
4/24/2024
Wexford K9 Search and Rescue Scotland is our latest featured ‘small voice’. Our roving reporter Margaret meets Rod Stoddart who tells the story of the organisation and his dogs’ rescue and therapy work. They can find themselves out in the open looking for a missing person or at a high …
Duration:00:20:59
sv podcast – Reading Genesis (and beyond)
4/9/2024
The one where we do a Bible study … well, sort of! For April’s podcast, Darren & Holly review Marilynne Robinson’s latest book, Reading Genesis. As our erudite listeners may know, Marilynne Robinson is a much-admired American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist. How can Holly and Darren match the AMAZING …
Duration:00:48:57
sv podcast – Rory Stewart on the edge
3/12/2024
In this podcast, Darren and Holly chat about former British MP Rory Stewart’s book Politics On The Edge. It’s had great reviews since it was published last year in hardback and is due out in paperback very soon. Does it live up to the hype and give a compelling insider’s …
Duration:00:50:54
sv podcast – beach wheelchairs
3/3/2024
We do like to be beside the seaside! Welcome to another special smallVOICE featuring ‘small voices’ – individuals, groups and organisations that are small but making a big difference. This time, our roving reporter, Margaret, speaks to two people involved with providing beach wheelchairs, a great project allowing people access …
Duration:00:16:56
sv podcast – the rise of the algorithm
2/18/2024
It’s February, and we join Holly & Darren, lost in a sea of online choices… Are the choices we make really our own or have we been shepherded towards them by ubiquitous AI algorithms? In the context of monetised apps and technology, how do we heed St Paul – no less …
Duration:00:39:17
sv podcast – Falkirk Street Pastors
1/28/2024
Welcome to this special smallVOICE feature about the great work of Street Pastors in Falkirk in central Scotland. Our roving reporter, Margaret, spoke to volunteers John, Nikki and Joanne, just a few days before Christmas. These volunteers aren’t just for Christmas though – they are out in the city centre …
Duration:00:23:53
sv podcast – January unresolved
1/16/2024
Happy 2024! In this January podcast, Holly and Darren delve deeply into the dark waters of New Year Resolutions. Is transformation possible? New new you? Lots of threads here in the chat, joining up honesty, faith, hope and redemption … Perhaps we need to embrace a bit of fragility too? …
Duration:00:50:53
sv podcast – “I have been in the whirlwind looking like a disco ball.”
12/18/2023
Some Christmas cheer from Holly and Darren in December’s podcast. Come away in and warm yourself with their reviews and recommendations for the festive period. There’s a helpful list below of links from the podcast but we recommend a spoiler-free listen first! And, for a treat, we finish with some …
Duration:00:47:34
sv podcast – Israel and Gaza
11/6/2023
Another tricky, but unavoidable, subject …. In this podcast, Holly and Darren talk about how best to talk about the violence in Israel and Gaza. What do we say? To what extent does social media make things worse? How do we pray? Links from this podcast: Wildgoose Publications …
Duration:00:39:05
sv podcast – for thy great pain, have mercy on my little pain
10/11/2023
In this month’s podcast Holly & Darren review the debut novel, For Thy Great Pain, Have Mercy On My Little Pain, by Victoria MacKenzie. It’s a short novel, published earlier this year, and is about the lives of two fourteenth-century mystics, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. Vividly and beautifully …
Duration:00:41:59
sv podcast – “No … not nice Lucy.”
9/14/2023
A difficult one this month, as Holly and Darren explore some of the issues arising from the recent Lucy Letby murder conviction. On 21 August this year, Lucy Letby became only the third woman alive to be handed a whole-life jail term when she was sentenced for murdering seven babies …
Duration:00:38:18
sv podcast – songs for the good times and the tough times
8/31/2023
For 25 years Stephen Fischbacher and the Fischy Music team have worked with children, singing, song writing and healing their relationship with the world around them. But what happens when singing is not allowed? Our roving reporter, Margaret, found out that the value of Fischy songs to young people reaches …
Duration:00:28:20
sv podcast – we review Barbie!
8/5/2023
Welcome to our slightly pink and fluffy podcast for August as Holly & Darren bravely review the film sensation, Barbie. As ever, get back to us with your views – leave a comment on this website, go to our Facebook Page or contact us on Twitter! To live in Barbie …
Duration:00:34:38
sv podcast – Amplifying Voices
7/10/2023
We’re delighted to find out about another ‘small voice’ that is making a big difference … Amplifying Voices is an organisation based in Worthing in the south of England and it’s 10 years old this year. Their mission is to train communities to use the tool of media to create …
Duration:00:23:45
sv podcast – summer recommendations!
6/20/2023
In this podcast Holly & Darren offer you some fine suggestions for summer reading, viewing, and listening. We’ve gone lighter for the summer but still some meaty stuff: Will baking change your life? Is Ted Lasso really about Ted Lasso? Can we just slow down a bit and take a …
Duration:00:43:03
sv podcast – talking Spiritual Care with Laura
5/22/2023
Welcome, gentle listener, and thanks for joining us! In this podcast we explore spiritual care – both in health care and in life in general. And we’re delighted to speak with Laura who is a hospice chaplain in central Scotland. Our recurring themes recently in the podcast have been faith …
Duration:00:39:17
sv podcast – the ChatGPT chat
4/24/2023
Welcome faithful listener, hungry for knowledge? Well, so are we, and in this podcast Holly and Darren try to get their heads round the latest artificial intelligence scare – OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It’s computer intelligence, it’s a great 1st draft, it’s the end of the world as we know it …. …
Duration:00:34:46
sv podcast – the Edinburgh Easter Play
3/29/2023
We have a special feature for Easter! Our roving reporter, Margaret, has been out talking to people involved in this year’s Easter Play in Edinburgh. This is a large-scale community Passion Play telling the Easter story and takes place in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens on Easter Saturday each year. Margaret …
Duration:00:21:21
sv podcast – where we get a little bit book-clubby and read Faith, Hope & Carnage
3/22/2023
We have read a book for Lent this year, oh yes, and it’s the fascinating Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan collaboration, Faith, Hope and Carnage. Listen to Holly & Darren chewing it over in this podcast … There is indeed lots of faith and hope (not quite sure about the …
Duration:00:37:39