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The Imagination

Ernie Rea discusses the relationship between religion, creativity and the imagination in a special edition from the Hay Festival.

Creative expression has often accompanied internal religious experience. And religious experience, by its nature other-worldly, is deeply connected to the power of the mind to contemplate, visualise and to imagine that there is a God. In a special edition in front of a live audience at the Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival Ernie Rea explores the relationship between religion, creativity and the imagination with Professor Anna Abraham, Neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, Mohammed Ali, a Street Artist and Curator, Barnabas Palfrey Lecturer in Christian Spirituality, at Sarum College in Salisbury and Manchester born poet and playwright, Louise Wallwein

Producer:
Catherine Earlam

Series Producer:
Amanda Hancox

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28 minutes

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Mon 15 Jul 2019 16:30

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  • Mon 15 Jul 2019 16:30

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