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In episode 9 we glide into eastertide with reflections on Easter Tuesday. Kate explains the necessarily transforming nature of poetry in ‘In Place’ by Frances Bellerby and ‘Field’ by Alice Oswald. Wild flowers briefly get a look in but are swiftly cut short by screaming babies (not on air). Music: The Old Churchyard’ sung by Lady Maisery. Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. About the Creators Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria. Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.

As the Magdalene encounters the gardener Fr Toby speaks about cultivating the garden of the soul.

In this Holy Week special edition Ciro highlights the importance of God's mercy in fostering forgiveness and love in families and discusses the role of self-sacrifice in achieving holiness. ProParent is a programme that promotes confident parenting, written and presented by Ciro Candia, founder of ProParent Hubs. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby on the new one flesh family Jesus speaks into being on this night. WORD FOR TODAY is broadcast live on Radio Maria on weekdays at 1:15pm and is rebroadcast at 12:15am and 5:45am the following day. In it our Priest Director Fr Toby offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby explores with Frank Sheed the many dimensions of this Passover Banquet on Maundy Thursday. THE FRIARSIDE airs live on Radio Maria on Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11:15am and is rebroadcast at 11:15pm on the same days. Our Priest Director Fr Toby reads through a spiritual book, pausing and providing commentary as he goes. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Looking at Jesus' last days with Frank Sheed and his seeming concern with bad teaching over bad politics. THE FRIARSIDE airs live on Radio Maria on Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11:15am and is rebroadcast at 11:15pm on the same days. Our Priest Director Fr Toby reads through a spiritual book, pausing and providing commentary as he goes. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

A Holy Week episode that goes into the ins and outs of the creative process and how we can prepare ourselves for the spontaneity that blossoms in poems, songs and stories. Listen to Sarah's poem, Holy Saturday Streets, take this week's prompt as a Triduum meditation and send the fruits of your labour to sarah@sarahdenordwall.com. THE BARDCAST airs live and can be listened to on www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or digital radio in London, Bristol, South Birmingham and Cambridge at 3:15pm after the Divine Mercy Chaplet on Sundays and 8pm on Fridays. Each week Sarah de Nordwall reflects on poems that have been sent in, shares a poem of her own, leaves us with a theme and a writing prompt and sends us off to write something ourselves. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Euan continues his journey through the book of Ephesians bringing us up to and through chapter 2. THE FRIARSIDE airs live on Radio Maria on Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11:15am and is rebroadcast at 11:15pm on the same days. Our Priest Director Fr Toby reads through a spiritual book, pausing and providing commentary as he goes. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Radio Maria England was given the chance to interview screenwriter Rod Barr (of Sound of Freedom fame) to talk about the recent film based on the life of the first American citizen to be declared a saint, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini. Hear all about it in conversation with Tim Hutchinson. This interview was made possible byKOVA International LTD, a limited company registered in England & Wales with registered number 11831571. KOVA'a registered office is Tagus House, 9 Ocean Way, SO14 3TJ.

Canadian visual artist Laurie-Lynn McGlynn takes us on the journey through her childhood and the challenges she's faced to become a woman of faith with an eye for beauty and flare for art. Listen to her story and the songs that marked the way in conversation with Di Redmond. Songs in the Wilderness is programme that features a guest telling the story of his or her life and the songs that inspired them along the way. The music in the podcast is clipped for the purposes of complying with copyright laws. Listen Songs in the Wilderness live on Wednesdays at 10am and again at 10pm on Radio Maria England. Radio Maria England is 24 hour Catholic radio station which broadcasts on Digital Radio in selected regions of the UK and online (using the Radio Maria Play app or the webpage) accessible anywhere in the world.