Do faith and politics mix? Tim Farron and Polly Toynbee

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🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Tim Farron is an MP and former leader of the Liberal Democrats. His Christian faith came under scrutiny during the 2017 UK General Election, leading to his resignation as party leader. His autobiography ‘A Better Ambition: Confessions of a faithful liberal’ (SPCK) tells his story. Polly Toynbee is a well-known journalist, political commentator and vice-president of Humanists UK. Her new book ’The Lost Decade’ analyses the political and social changes of 2010-2020 in the UK. Tim and Polly engage in a wide-ranging discussion on whether faith convictions are welcome in public life. For Tim Farron https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show and receive all the videos sessions from Unbelievable? USA 2019 https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable/ For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the show. This is Unbelievably with me Justin Briley. The program that brings you
0:04.7	conversations that matter every Saturday here on Premier Christian Radio. And we're all casting
0:08.9	around the world via our podcast. You can also find us on YouTube as well. Today's show on
0:14.6	Faith and Politics is going to be there very shortly. If you want to find the channel, do go to our
0:19.9	website premierChristianradio.com, forward slash unbelievable, and you'll find links there to things
0:24.9	like our newsletter, which will bring you fortnightly updates about the show and some of the extra
0:29.5	resources, our app, and much more besides. And it was our happy 25th birthday to Premier Christian
0:35.4	Radio this past week. Yes, it was the 10th of June 1995 when the very first Christian radio station
0:42.1	in the UK was launched 25 years, still going strong. And well, unbelievable as we've part of that
0:47.8	story for the past 14 to 15 years. And my own career at Premier has extended, I think, across
0:53.7	about 18 years now, believe it or not, at the station. So lots to celebrate. Obviously a slightly
0:59.1	different celebration is then we had envisaged for our 25th anniversary given the lockdown. But still
1:04.1	a lot of fun was had and I'll bring a little bit of a listener feedback to those celebrations
1:09.4	later on in the show. More of your thoughts as well from recent shows that show with Dr. Francis
1:15.2	Collins last week, the most recent Templeton prize winner has stoked a lot of interest and a lot
1:20.1	of enthusiasm as well. So bring some of your thoughts on that. If you want to get in touch with the
1:24.3	show, as always, you can do that by emailing unbelievable at premier dot org dot UK. And there are
1:29.8	ways to get in touch via social media. I will give those out a little bit later on in the show as
1:34.8	well for now. Let's get into today's program.
1:46.8	You're listening to unbelievable with Justin Briarley.
1:54.5	Well on the show today, we're asking do faith and politics mix Tim Barron and Polly Toymbe
2:01.6	join me today for a conversation on religion and public life. Tim Barron is MP for West
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