Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 7th of April 2026.

I am joined by Bo and Farras and today Farras is telling us about the importance of some festive persecution.

We're going to just talk about different Easter celebrations, some persecution, some not so much so persecutions. On an unrelated note, I'm going to talk about the boomers versus everyone.

And then Bo is going to be telling us a heroic story of the American pilot who escaped everything,

which I actually don't know anything about, so I'm actually really looking forward to hearing.

Okay, cool.

But before I get started as well, Lotus Eaters live, Let's be honest, if you're not going at this point, you know, what are you doing with your life? Rearrange everything, you've got to be there. It's so important. No, obviously if you came along, it'd be very good. It's going to be a lot of fun. I think there's still a few tickets left. And so come along if you'd like to see us all in person and meet some of the audience. Also, the Boe show. Breakfast with Bo? Breakfast with Boe, yeah.

Bow's Breakfast Club, the real BBC.

Make sure to check that out.

Every day at eight?

Every workday at eight.

Eight at eight.

Eight a.m.

Yep.

Bright and bright eye and bushy-tailed.

Something I never am, but admirable that you do it.

But anyway, with all of that out of the way, I suppose we need to hear who should be persecuted this Easter.

Well, ideally no one, but we're just going to talk about a bunch of different Easter celebrations that happened throughout the world.

There were services in Tehran at St. Sarkees's Cathedral.

These, I believe, were Palm Sunday services rather than Easter services,

because this is an Armenian Orthodox church named after General Sergius, who was a Roman general who fled to Persia, was persecuted by Shapur II, among 16,000 other Christians who were killed, and became a Christian martyr.

And so the church is named after him.

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