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Nick Spencer discusses The Political Samaritan on BBC Radio 5 Live

Nick Spencer discusses The Political Samaritan on BBC Radio 5 Live

Nick Spencer appears on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss his latest book, The Political Samaritan.

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Nick Spencer joined host Rhod Sharp on BBC Radio 5 Live on 13th December. Nick discussed how politicians have used, and at times hijacked, Jesus’s most famous parable – the subject of his latest book, The Political Samaritan: How Power Hijacked a Parable.

Listen to Nick speak here, from 2:35:50 (available until 12th January).

 Image from BBC Radio 5 Live

Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of The Landscapes of Science and Religion (OUP, 2025), Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity (2024), and Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023). Nick is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 13 December 2017

Listen from 2:35:50 at BBC Radio 5 Live

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