Northern Ireland

We Few, We Band of Brothers

1 Nov 2025
2826

Join Will and his guest for a remarkable insight into life as a chaplain in the Armed Forces.  Rev James Burnett from Belfast is a chaplain in the Royal Naval Reserve.  Known as "Bish" or "Padre", whilst on deployment he regularly hears serving men a...

Love for Life

1 Oct 2025
2788

One to enjoy without the younger kids listening - because we're dealing with how to teach our young people about love and sex.  Judith Cairns from Love for Life joins Will to explain their work in schools, churches and the community.  There's no doub...

He Is My Rock

11 Sep 2025
1632

In a special extra episode, Belfast man Gerry Blain tells Will his own life story, a story of turning away from God, and of being one of the worst-behaved  Bible study group members imaginable!  But God called Gerry back to Himself.  His witness ever...

Man and Boy.

30 Aug 2025
2814

Lisa Keys is the Chief Officer of Boys Brigade Northern Ireland  An experienced business leader, she has steered the organisation through a major change as it began to work in partnership with, rather than as part of, the BB in Great Britain.  BB NI...

Full Stops and Commas

31 Jul 2025
3208

David Blevins is the Senior Ireland Correspondent for Sky News, but is spending most of 2025 seconded to cover the biggest news stories happening in the United States.  He's been a News Journalist for more than 30 years.  In a fascinating interview h...

The Big House

28 Jun 2025
2683

"A peaceful, friendly, calm place".  That's how Dr Angie Minion describes The Big House, "a place to discover more of God's love".  She's joined by counsellor, Katie Mounstephen, as they explain their work, which also includes pastoral support, youth...

Hope is a Name

31 May 2025
2746

   Will meets Daniel Jackson of The Genesis Network - which offers support to Ireland's people of business.  Can you imagine a marketplace transformed by Christ in an era of instability and uncertainty?  A time many describe as "permacrisis"?  Can yo...

God's image, in us...

13 May 2025
824

    How do you begin to get a grip on the conflict in the Middle East?  Gaza?  Israel? Death and Suffering? What do you pray for?  Do you pick a side?  Will has been meeting Safa Hijazeen, Tearfund's Regional Director with responsibility for the Midd...

A Journey

30 Apr 2025
2875

     What is Northern Ireland to you?  Home?  Or a strange and alien land?  To people using the International Meeting Point venues in south and north Belfast it can be both.  Kerry and Will have been to visit and meet the Project Leader, Rev Colin Di...

Counting the Cost

29 Mar 2025
2548

     What does "counting the cost" mean for 380 million Christians around the world? Chris from Open Doors UK and Ireland joins us to explain why they keep a World Watch List of the Top 50 countries where it's dangerous to live your faith openly. And...

Different and the Same

1 Mar 2025
2789

     There hasn't ever been a generation which didn't quite understand its young people, nor a group of teenagers who didn't roll their eyes at their parents.  They're different.  And they're just the same.  Will and Kerry welcome Jose Cummings of Ex...

Freed to Flourish

31 Jan 2025
2416

      A sadly all-too-common news story - a police raid on a property, and people rescued from their abusers.  People who'd been trafficked to Northern Ireland and forced into sex work.  But what happens after the story is largely forgotten? How does...

Storymakers

29 Dec 2024
3021

      Three guests join Kerry and Will in the Commission studios they know very well already.  Commission's Head of Programmes Colm Flanagan accompanies  Hilary Jewhurst and Drew Gibson.  All three are Commission actors, presenters, producers and wri...

Mama Lacey

1 Dec 2024
3036

      Music, chat and laughter in this special Christmas episode where Kerry and Will meet Marie Lacey, founder and director of Belfast Community Gospel Choir.  She describes the choir as a way of helping people from all walks of life sing truths abo...

Everything and All to Me.

31 Oct 2024
3150

      The Christian author and speaker, Lyndall Bywater, joins Kerry and Will to talk about her life and work.  She explains how she's never let her blindness interfere with any aspect of her life.  Known for uniting prayer groups across the UK and I...

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