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Musician and political activist Andy Flannagan explains why Christ needs us to show up.

16 Oct 2025
00:58:36

Andy Flannagan has an irrepressible energy. The Northern Irishman, who is now based in Luton, began his adult life as a medical doctor before quickly deciding that singing and song writing was a passion he had to explore. His albums include Adv...

Leadership Special JD Bauman: ‘Leading for greater impact’

15 Oct 2025
00:28:08

Andy Peck talks with the founder of Christians for Impact about their ministry helping Christians to invest their time in work that best serves God’s kingdom. They look at their selection of the key evidence-based areas of impact and look ahead to th...

Olympic High Jumper Nicola Olyslagers on faith: "If you don't aim for gold, you won't get silver.'

9 Oct 2025
00:44:55

Australian high jumper Nicola Olyslagers has achieved a lot in her life already. Aged just 28 she is the newly crowned World Champion, winning the gold at the recent World Athletics Championships in Japan. She has won silver medals at the Paris 2024...

Leadership Special Lars Due Christensen: ‘Leading people into freedom’

8 Oct 2025
00:27:50

Andy Pecks talks with the pastor and director of The Steps course, which is based on 12 steps use with AA, but within an overtly Christian framework. They discuss why he felt the need to develop the course, the similarities and contrasts between his...

Beth Allison Barr - how the role of minister's wife became the 'ideal' for women in Church leadership

2 Oct 2025
00:50:52

Academic Beth Allison Barr grew up in a Christian home a never really questioning the reality of God and was formally baptised aged 11. Not that there weren't a few theological question marks along the way. She became an academic historian specia...

Leadership Special Matt Lillicrap: ‘Leading with limits’

1 Oct 2025
00:27:47

Andy Peck chats with the CEO of UCCF: the Christian Unions, about his leadership as a junior doctor, as a pastor and now of a student charity. They look at why limits may actually be a blessing for the Christian leader and why students reaching stude...

BBC Traitor's champion Harry Clark on simple faith and life in the army

25 Sep 2025
00:41:49

24-year-old Harry Clark shot to fame on BBC One's hit reality show The Traitors. He won the second series last year bagging £95,000 which he says he used to pay off family debt and make a small investment - nothing too flash. Despite the high p...

Leadership Special Will & Lara Sussman: ‘Leading a Mission in a Ski Resort’

24 Sep 2025
00:26:37

Andy Peck chats with the founders of Altitude Mission, which develops teams of ‘Ski Angels’ to serve skiers and residents of Méribel in the Fresh Alps. They discuss God’s clear hand in the development of the Mission, what they have learned about lead...

Dr. Selina Stone - the Pentecostal theologian writing on abuse in the Church

18 Sep 2025
00:52:31

Dr Selina Stone is a theologian who has written on topics as diverse as class, race within Pentecostal theology as well as racial inequality in the church and black spirituality. Stone grew up in a working class family in Birmingham attending...

Leadership Special Chris Spicer: ‘Leading when you are elderly’

17 Sep 2025
00:26:32

Andy Peck chats with the author of ‘Life in the Last Lane’ about his clarion call for older people not to be written off, nor write themselves off when they reach retirement years. They discuss why the elderly are so often undervalued, how to value e...

Kirk Franklin - the multi-Grammy winning musician on music and ministry

11 Sep 2025
00:27:36

Artist Kirk Franklin is known to millions and has amassed a staggering 20 grammys since he first started making music in the early nineties. He was born in Texas and from very early on, aged just four, Franklin began playing the piano; by 11 h...

Leadership Special Josh Newell: ‘Leading The Jesus Film Project’

10 Sep 2025
00:27:39

As The Jesus Film is translated into its 2,200th spoken language, Andy Peck chats with the executive director about the success of a film first released in 1979 and now believed to have been seen by 11 billion people. What are the leadership challeng...

John Studzinski - the British-American banker and philanthropist with the ear of four popes

4 Sep 2025
00:51:32

Investment banker and philanthropist John Studzinski began his charitable life at the tender age of six when he opened a soup kitchen with his Catholic mother. She had been a nurse during WW2 and as he says in this interview it is sometimes easier...

Leadership Special Daniel Johnson: ‘Leading worshippers’

3 Sep 2025
00:27:47

Andy Peck chats with the programme leader of London School of Theology’s, Music and Worship Studies about contemporary worship leading. What might a worship leader aim to do? How helpful are repeated lyrics? How do we embrace ethnic groups styles? H...

Jeremy Stalnecker - the former Marine helping veterans recover from PTSD

28 Aug 2025
00:45:25

When Jeremy Stalnecker fulfilled his childhood dream of joining the Marines he thought he had it made. He had grown up in southern California into a Christian family and his father was a pastor. Despite an early biblical grounding he did not see min...

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