FlexiLingo
Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His final choice is the Trinity, an episode first released in March 2014. The idea that God is a single entity, but one known in three distinct forms - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - has been a central belief for most Christians since the earliest years of the religion. The doctrine was often controversial in the early years of the Church, until clarified by the Council of Nicaea in the late 4th century. Later thinkers including St Augustine and Thomas Aquinas...
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- 214 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Part of why I blew the whistle was I didn't want to lay in bed in 20 years, having seen another million people die and know that I could have done something when I had a chance. This week on The Interface, we're talking to Frances Haugen,
the Facebook whistleblower who leaked the documents that changed how the world saw social media. And now she is the subject of Erin Sorkin's latest movie, The Social Reckoning. So join me, Thomas Germain, and me, Jess Maddox, for The Interface. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hello, I'm Tom Gatti, literary editor and host of the Observer Book Club podcast. Join me for in-depth conversations with some of the world's best writers, such as Alif Shafak, Douglas Stewart and Robert Macfarlane. At The Observer we have a passion for storytelling, whether rooted in fact or fiction.
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