Moral Maze

Radio 3 in concert marks Armistice Day with a live performance of Benjamin Britten's choral masterwork War Requiem from Coventry Cathedral at 7.30pm on Radio 3.

Today's vintage comedy on Radio 4 Extra is Hancock's Half Hour from 1956 at 7.30am and 6.30pm. Back on Radio 4, The Moral Maze brings a discussion of a topical moral issue with guests including Giles Fraser and Mona Siddiqui.

Radio 4 at 8pm.

Now on to Thursday the 12th of November.

Which surprised me.

I used to work on the BBC Moral Maze program and getting people to say the word moral was almost impossible because it sounds judgy.

We like ethical.

Don't like moral.

He's written a great series of books.

where he goes through different books of the bible where it's such and such for everyone and there's one that he's done on called revelation for everyone so if you if you're up for a challenge i would say read it but then get some help from somebody good like him so they're short these these they're not big thick tombs these things like revelation for everyone and also i was also going to recommend a podcast as well I think we've probably spoken before about the moral maze.

I really like those programs and I listen to most of them.

They're quite often ethical, but sometimes they're ones with more kind of theology and more churchy.

Uh, Mona and I have worked together for many years, uh, on some of the most contested virtues, uh, in the world today, so gratitude, hope, and of course, loyalty, which we'll be discussing today.

Uh, she is the UK's premier scholar of classical Islamic law and Christian-Muslim relations, and many of you will be familiar with her, uh, as a voice on BBC Radio, on shows like Thought for the Day and Moral Maze.

Uh, Mona joined King's last year as Professor of Religion and Society, and we look very much forward to hearing her later today.

But first, loyalty and identity.