National Secular Society Podcast

Recent Episodes

Ep 28: RE in Wales: a chance for fundamental change

Posted June 18, 2020 • 00:29:52

How much progress will the Welsh government make with its proposed reforms to RE? In this episode, Emma Park speaks to Stephen Evans, CEO of the NSS,...

Ep 27: Unregistered (illegal) schools

Posted June 4, 2020 • 00:37:54

In this episode, Emma Park discusses unregistered faith schools, particularly in the Hasidic community with Eve Sacks, a member of the Jewish anti-extremist...

Ep 26: Hindutva with Gita Sahgal

Posted May 21, 2020 • 00:29:42

In this episode, Emma Park speaks to Gita Sahgal, a human rights activist and Honorary Associate of the NSS, about secularism in India, and the threats...

Bonus Ep 2: Leo Igwe #FreeMubarakBala

Posted May 9, 2020 • 00:28:38

This podcast gives an emergency update on the plight of Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria (HAN). Bala was arrested in Kaduna,...

Ep 25: American religious exceptionalism and Covid-19

Posted May 7, 2020 • 00:42:32

This episode is about secularism in the USA, its basis in the American constitution, and its opposition by the religious right. The NSS’s Alastair...