Exeter Quakers in Quaker Week radio
‘In a year when our regular physical events had to be cancelled, it felt good to still be able to share our faith with Radio Devon listeners.’
Seven Exeter Quakers provided the early morning ‘Pause for Thought’ session for the local BBC radio station to mark Quaker Week.
The ninety-second broadcasts for the BBC Radio Devon Breakfast Show centred on the theme of their personal testimonies and ‘Living as a Quaker Today’. The sessions were aired for each of the seven days of Quaker Week.
Ian Martin, who liaised with the local BBC, told the Friend that the topics ranged from ‘reported conversations in Exeter with a British army general and a grand-daughter, each challenging our faith, to service in Papua New Guinea and Occupied Palestine’. The Friends also discussed the words of a European theologian to Quakers around the world on a Woodbrooke Zoom call, and Friends’ response to Covid-19.
Quakers in Devon have had a long relationship with Radio Devon during Quaker Weeks with visits to the studio to record the radio pieces.
Ian Martin said: ‘The recordings this year had to be over the phone, including one from a hotel bedroom after a late change to holiday plans.
‘In a year when our regular physical events had to be cancelled, it felt good to still be able to share our faith with Radio Devon listeners.’
The recordings and text of the broadcasts are available on the Exeter Quakers’ Facebook page.
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