Everyday Ethics

Jeffrey Archer was a bestselling author with 300 million copies of his book sold around the world, but he was also a liar and a fraudster. His crimes eventually caught up with him and landed him in prison for two years.
Audrey talks to journalist Michael Crick about the many lives that Jeffrey Archer lived and then we discuss the idea of celebrity redemption with commentator Liz Kennedy and Dr Leon Litvack.
The Catholic Primate, Archbishop Eamon Martin is in Rome this week as part of a conference on the family with Pope Leo. He will tell us more about that and also his thoughts on how church leaders can help with the situation on the Garvaghy Road.
It was three years ago this week that Hamas attacked Southern Israel killing almost 1200 people and unleashing a war in Gaza that killed tens of thousands more. Audrey talks to veteran peace negotiator Gershon Baskin about where things stand ahead of Israeli elections.

As the Drumcree standoff continues, we ask how much Northern Ireland has changed since the original confrontation decades ago. Audrey is joined by Professor Peter Shirlow, Director at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies, Gladys Ganiel professor of the sociology of religion at Queen's University, author and pastoral worker Jim Deeds and Legal Project manager Tegan Nesbitt.
As India celebrates the birth of Gandhi Audrey speaks to writer Mihir Bose about how his legacy has changed and how he is viewed in today’s India.
And poet and broadcaster Pádraig Ó Tuama talks to Audrey about his new book Love Between Men.

If you were to listen to the people responsible for creating and developing Artificial Intelligence, you would conclude that it's the biggest danger to the planet - worse than climate change - when they tell us it might wipe out humanity in a decade and that work on it should stop. The biggest conference on AI on this island has been taking place in Belfast this week. And one of the keynote speakers was Nell Watson - she's an engineer, an independent researcher and one of the world's leading experts on the ethics of AI and she dropped in to chat to Audrey about ethics and machine learning.
Does Prayer work? That's the question we're putting to Christian theologian Professor Laurence Kirkpatrick and Sr Geraldine Smyth.
When is enough, enough? How about an economy that is designed for the health of people and the planet instead? What part can we all play in making this happen? Kristian Noll is a climate policy and knowledge exchange expert currently working in the London School of Economics. This week he launched a report based on a conference held at Queen's University on Earth Day. It's called 'An Economy of Enough in a time of crisis and opportunity'.

Broken relationships are a fact of life but how should we react? Should we forgive others or does there come a time when you need to draw a line under a relationship and move on. Audrey talks to Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, Jim Deeds and Dr Elaine Storkey about difficult conversations and the difference between reconciliation and forgiveness.
We also talk to Vatican Correspondent Elise Ann Allen about her journey with her husband, John, as he faced terminal cancer before dying earlier this year.

As the far-right Alternative for Deutschland party wins 44 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anholt, Audrey talks to Jenny Witt- a journalist based in Hamburg- about what the result means for wider Germany. They also discuss what the Churches in Saxony Anhalt have been doing to help asylum seekers, and how that has brought them into direct confrontation with the AFD.
Leadership is something that every organisation and company try to get right. But how different would things be if we all practiced Servant Leadership. We discuss the strengths and limitations with political commentator Alex Kane, theologian Peter McDowell and Professor of inclusive leadership at Birmingham Business School Joanne Murphy.
Lord Peter Ricketts was the British government's chief civil servant in the foreign office and was the UK's first national security adviser. He talks to Audrey about his book Peace Makers: Shaping the Modern World, outlining the role played by Diplomats in World War 2 and what we can learn from that in an increasingly unstable world.