Friday, September 10, 2010

Hell on the Radio


On Sunday, September 26th, I will be interviewed on Tapestry, Canadian Broadcasting’s weekly show on faith. The show will be devoted to notions of the afterlife, and my segment will be discussing medieval and modern notions of hell. Mary Hynes hosts. 
Like NPR’s Speaking of Faith, this weekly program is an “engaging, provocative and unexpected hour of radio: an hour in which rabbis and poets get equal time on the topic of faith, science-fiction writers and physicist-priests ponder the great creation myths, athletes explore the hero's journey as a spiritual metaphor, and architects examine the idea of space for the soul.”
Tapestry airs on CBC Radio One on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 Atlantic, Eastern and Central; 3:00 Pacific; and 4:00 Mountain. It is rebroadcast on Thursday at 3:00. After the first airing on September 26th, you can listen to the show or download a podcast at http://www.cbc.ca/tapestry .
In addition to The Pilgrim’s Way to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, I am the author of several books on Hell, including Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante, and am the curator of the website “Hell-on-Line.”