![Episode 45. Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1714588130017-GXZCVJ7U9MOPPWH5NJDX/CoE%2BSpiritualism.jpg)
Episode 45. Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Revd Canon Dr Georgina Byrne about her book Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England and the changing attitudes within Anglicanism to the afterlife..
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Episode 43. Pleshey Retreat House, Essex and Evelyn Underhill
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with the former Warden of Pleshey Retreat House, Essex, Canon John Howden about its proud history and association with the Christian mystic, Evelyn Underhill.
![Episode 41. W. T. Stead: Newspaper Prophet](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1710336109942-0AH4HWI5BG4IBTI55GYS/SteadWT.jpg)
Episode 41. W. T. Stead: Newspaper Prophet
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Professor Stewart J. Brown about his biography of the nonconformist and newspaper prophet, W. T. Stead.
![Episode 40. Theo Hobson: Anglicanism, Liberalism and Liberty](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1705772535236-90OJDI1I2RQN6JOGIK8E/Theo%2BHobson%2BMilton%2527s%2BVision.jpg)
Episode 40. Theo Hobson: Anglicanism, Liberalism and Liberty
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with the theologian, author and journalist Theo Hobson about the relationship between the Church of England and modern notions of liberty and liberalism.
![Episode 39. The Two Lives of Christabel Pankhurst](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1705842235774-YHTNU8GYYS893V63O6XD/Christabel%2BPankhurst.jpg)
Episode 39. The Two Lives of Christabel Pankhurst
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Professor Timothy Larsen about the feminist and fundamentalist preacher, Christabel Pankhurst.
![Episode 38. Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1704812251218-IMRPH17OGWP9U6Y2XKR3/Ebenezer%2BHoward.jpg)
Episode 38. Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Professor Frances Knight about the founding visionary of the Garden City Movement, Ebenezer Howard.
![Episode 36. ‘Good George Lansbury’](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1700066825583-85IKOYDN99H6LZ0TJHKY/George%2BLansbury.jpg)
Episode 36. ‘Good George Lansbury’
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Professor Pippa Catterall and Daniel Payne about the Christian Socialist politician, leader of the Labour Party and Pacifist, George Lansbury.
![Episode 34. Liberalism and the Non-Conformist Conscience](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1698783010134-KIKM2YINLB2D5LCKNAEW/Gladstone.jpg)
Episode 34. Liberalism and the Non-Conformist Conscience
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Professor David Bebbington about Liberalism and the Non-Conformist Conscience, perhaps best exemplified by the life, faith and political opinions of the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone .
![Episode 32. Father Groser and the Royal Foundation of St Katharine](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1696269860711-W1027ND0HF98MCTVBMTD/Father+John+Groser.jpg)
Episode 32. Father Groser and the Royal Foundation of St Katharine
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with the Venerable Roger Preece, the 68th Master of the Royal Foundation of St Katharine about his influential predecessor and Christian Socialist, Father St John Groser, the 58th Master of this retreat centre and oasis of calm in urban London.
![Episode 31. Octavia Hill](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1692736361893-ER5PBNPEJDSVOQ7OKUIH/Octavia%2BHill.jpg)
Episode 31. Octavia Hill
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with the biographer, speaker and broadcaster Gillian Darley about her biography of Octavia Hill, the social and housing reformer who is best known today for co-founding The National Trust.
![Episode 29. Squires in the Slums: The University Settlements](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1691056535505-NC31OGQ062R1FUUNIK4P/Squires%252Bin%252Bthe%252BSlumsJPG.jpg)
Episode 29. Squires in the Slums: The University Settlements
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Dr Nigel Scotland about the university settlement movement which sprang up principally in London, but also in major industrial cities, after awareness of the ‘submerged tenth’ living in extreme poverty pricked the conscience of the middle classes from the 1880s.
![Episode 28. The Changing Face of Evangelicalism](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1684335759140-Z5BL7RNH0YV5DPM0USGV/Exeter+HAll+anti+slavery.jpg)
Episode 28. The Changing Face of Evangelicalism
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with the Reverend Dr David Hilborn about the defining characteristics of Evangelicalism, and changing face since the founding of the Evangelical Alliance in London 1846.
![Episode 27. Radical Essex](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1684162128433-H8TS4FEYLJV8UWXCBQTN/Radical+Essex.jpg)
Episode 27. Radical Essex
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with the distinguished social historian and writer Ken Worpole about radical Essex and its experiments in communal living, some of which are associated with what is known as the “Essexodus” from London’s East End to neighbouring Essex in the east.
![Episode 26. Stewart Headlam](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1680730634504-2BWRX2OIWHRRR2RRVPH5/Stewart_Headlam.jpg)
Episode 26. Stewart Headlam
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Professor John Orens about the campaigner on behalf of chorus girls and the ballet, popular theatre and music hall, trade unionism, freedom of speech for atheists and secular education, the radical one-time priest and sacramental socialist, Stewart Headlam.
![Episode 25. Jack and Barbara Putterill: Family Recollections](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1680631311359-164N50ENMF775HUAA9WA/IMG_1234.jpg)
Episode 25. Jack and Barbara Putterill: Family Recollections
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Sally, Jenny and Martin Heath, the granddaughters and grandson of the Christian Socialist Father Jack Putterill and his wife Barbara, about their idyllic childhood visits to Thaxted and the tradition of Morris, Mummers plays, music and theatre that they encountered there.
Episode 24. The Thaxted Tradition
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Professor Arthur Burns about the seventy year tradition of Christian Socialism in the rural town of Thaxted, Essex, running from 1910 to 1984..
![Episode 17. The William Temple Tradition in Anglican Social Theology](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1673274172891-5WDCOSFB5A3MN2DML6FV/Temple_Spencer.jpg)
Episode 17. The William Temple Tradition in Anglican Social Theology
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with the Revd Canon Dr Stephen Spencer about his long fascination with the great Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, and Temple’s place within Anglican Social Theology.
![Episode 16. Marquis d’Oisy](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1673903443654-P8BAOY0B751QIDRCPRJR/Marquis%2Bd%2527Oisy.jpg)
Episode 16. Marquis d’Oisy
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Julian Litten about his career as an ecclesastical historian and his book about the Thaxted exotic, the self-styled Amand Edouard Ambroise Marie Lowis Etienne Phillipe d’Sant Andre Tournay, Marquis d’Oisy.
![Episode 9. Father Basil Jellicoe and London’s Slum Priests](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1673274050681-AL7LRQO8IWR4B5CTBXPP/Basil%252BJellicoe.jpg)
Episode 9. Father Basil Jellicoe and London’s Slum Priests
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Father Paschal Worton, team vicar of St Mary’s, Eversholt Street, NW1 about London’s slum priests, including the housng reformer Father Basil Jellicoe and the Christian Socialist, Father Charles Marson.
![Episode 6. Daisy, Countess of Warwick](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63750fd89157aa59a44745c7/1673211464330-LRIP6RFFHCBPS8Q2W9M8/Daisy_Stevens.jpg)
Episode 6. Daisy, Countess of Warwick
Dr Simon Machin in conversation with local historian Maggie Stevens about Edward VII’s mistress and socialist convert, ‘Daisy’ Countess of Warwick and the Red Vicars of Essex.