Audrey and a panel of experts, discuss the concept of free will

The United Nations has warned that global warming is the biggest threat to our existence on this planet - and the warnings aren't about the next thousand years - the impact is already being felt now and will undoubtedly be much more severe for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The annual climate change negotiations take place next week in Dubai - COP28 as they're known. Will they make a difference or does a gathering of politicians simply amount to more hot air? Presenter Claire...

It is a simple question, that unwraps the bundle of complexity, that is a human life.

Audrey Carville and author James Walvin, explore one of the world's most enduring hymns.

Would Christianity have acted differently had it always depicted Jesus accurately?

Can those power really me honest brokers in any mediation?

Audrey Carville and a panel of experts, discuss the crisis in Israel/Palestine

Are the new regulations on sex education in schools a barrier between church and state?

What are our obligations as family members?

Are we shirking responsibility by not saving for our potential care home costs?

What does 'home' mean to us and feel like? How do we know when we're home? And home isn't always a safe space or a sanctuary. Audrey Carville is joined by theologian Dr Joy Allan who has moved a lot, Aodhán Connolly who last year switched from Bangor to work in Brussels, Eileen Chan-Hu who founded CRAIC NI and regularly spends time with family in Hong Kong, and well known journalist and political commentator Alex Kane who was adopted.

Audrey Carville talks to Rev Steve Stockman about Sinéad O’Connor’s faith journey and how it influenced her songs. And she hears from Dr Niamh Shaw, a scientist heading to Antarctica, listens back to an archive interview with journalist Brian Black who sailed to the Arctic, and finds out how you become the Bishop for the Falkland Islands.

Audrey Carville is joined by Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick, Chris Huhne, Hannah Quinn-Mulligan and Dr Jayme Reaves to discuss how we farm and produce food, how we travel to school and work, how we holiday, how we heat our homes and businesses? If our political leaders and citizens made different choices, would it help create a more sustainable world? How are our every day choices contributing to what we see being lived out by communities all over the world?

It has been in our lives in some shape or form now for nearly two decades, but in very recent times the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence have really exploded to the front of our consciousness. Audrey Carville explores the benefits and the dangers with Dr Stephanie Hare (independent researcher of techology and politics, and author of 'Technology is not Neutral'), Stephen Williams (Honorary Professor of Theology and co-editor of The Robot Will See You Know - Artificial Intelligence and...

Audrey speaks to Lord Deban or John Gummer, on climate change, faith and controversy.

Should drug users by treated and supported rather than criminalised and excluded?

Is there ever a moral way to help someone die?

Drownings at sea - What role do Western backed wars play in the fleeing of millions from their homeland? Audrey Carville is joined by Sally Hayden (the Irish Times Africa correspondent who is currently in Sierra Leone and is also the author of 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route'), Patrick Cockburn (author and a columnist with the Independent and specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East) and Rosamond Bennett (CEO of...

Why do the electorate keep falling for those who bend the truth?

Will the next major war be a cyberwar?

Just what are the motives for book bans across the world?

Are we looking at the end of the parish as we've known it on this island for decades? Could this herald another reformation within the Catholic Church? A pastoral letter has been issued by Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown, in his role as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Down and Connor. He explains how falling vocations to the priesthood means ageing priests and more priests retiring and no one to fill their shoes. The shortages mean that very soon, it may no longer be the norm that...

Are there are other ways we can reflect and remember those, of whatever background?

Stormont's cuts start to bite, is it time to decide priorities from scratch?

What is the role of the monarchy in the modern world?