A Mucky Business with Tim Farron

BBC featured Pastor Mick Fleming: a call to weep with the poor

8 Feb 2022
25:40

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Pastor Mick Fleming who heads up Church on the Street in Burnley, and was featured on BBC News about his life and work helping those struggling in his community.   Pastor Mick also shares a passionate call for all th...

Lord Farmer: The vision from God which changed my career

1 Feb 2022
27:34

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Conservative peer Lord Michael Farmer who shares his testimony of coming to faith later in life and how it changed his career. He also discusses his work in parliament looking to support families. Tim also encourages...

Mark Bainbridge: How free are we to live out our faith in the UK

25 Jan 2022
25:29

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Mark Bainbridge, the executive director of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship.  They discuss which is the ‘muckier business’…politics or law? They’ll also unpack how the law affects us as Christians and whether it limi...

Andrew Hawkins: the power of polling

18 Jan 2022
27:56

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Savanta ComRes founder Andrew Hawkins about how polling impacts the ‘mucky business’ of politics. Andrew will speak about his new project democracythree.org which looks to empower the general public to campaign on is...

Dame Caroline Spelman: Life on the front bench and swimming with sharks

11 Jan 2022
25:40

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Dame Caroline Spelman about her varied career in politics which saw her sit in David Cameron’s cabinet, represent the Church of England in Parliament and serve her constituency for 22 years. Caroline discusses the hi...

Marsha de Cordova: God opened doors for me to become an MP

14 Dec 2021
27:58

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Labour MP Marsha de Cordova about her entry into the mucky business of politics. Marsha also shares how she's committed to acting as a voice for the voiceless in parliament. And Tim takes on a question from a listene...

Rev Mark Meynell: Serving as chaplain to the Treasury and the Cabinet Office

7 Dec 2021
27:27

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Rev Mark Meynell about his work as a chaplain to the Treasury and the Home Office. Mark is a renknowned preacher and an author. In this conversation Tim and Mark will unpack the theme his book 'A Wilderness of Mirror...

Baroness Caroline Cox: Representing the Queen in the House of Lords and a life fighting injustices

30 Nov 2021
27:00

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Baroness Caroline Cox about a political career which she has dedicated to serving the persecuted. Baroness Cox shares how she gave up a life in nursing to work in some of the most dangerous places around the world. T...

Richard Gamble: Mixing prayer and politics

23 Nov 2021
27:52

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Richard Gamble, the man behind the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer – a new national landmark dedicated to answered prayers, which will open in 2023. Richard shares the story of where the idea came from and how societ...

Lord Leslie Griffiths: being called to church ministry and politics

16 Nov 2021
27:26

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Lord Leslie Griffiths, a former president of the Methodist Conference as well as a Labour peer in the House of Lords about how his faith and politics have always been linked. Unlike other church leaders in the Lords,...

Dr. Mark Pickering, Christian Medical Fellowship: assisted dying and where ethics and politics overlap

9 Nov 2021
27:51

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to Dr. Mark Pickering, the Chief Executive of the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) - a group that often speaks out on contentious issues of ethics and law. They discuss assisted dying and where medics can shape policy...

Andy Flannagan: Why I persuade some Christians to go into politics and dissuade others

26 Oct 2021
29:21

Christian MP Tim Farron speaks to the Executive Director of Christians in Politics, Andy Flannagan, about what a Christian needs to make it in politics and what hope there is for the next generation of Christian leaders. Christians in Politics encour...

Lord Paul Boateng: From MP to Peer, New Labour and fixing global health inequality

19 Oct 2021
27:33

Former Labour MP for Brent South and current Peer Lord Paul Boateng speaks to Tim Farron about his Christian upbringing, fleeing Ghana, how New Labour's ideas and discipline were what got them into power and why his big passion now is solving the hug...

Sir Gary Streeter: from Atheist to leading Christian MPs in Parliament

12 Oct 2021
25:16

Gary Streeter talks about the changes he's seen in the number of Christian MPs since he was elected in 1992. The Conservative MP explains how he went from being an Atheist to being 'soundly, intellectually converted' and leading Christians in Parliam...

Carla Lockhart: I feel called to talk about abortion and to evangelise

5 Oct 2021
28:32

DUP MP Carla Lockhart feels passionately that she has been elected to Westminster to talk about the issue of abortion. But she also thinks the Church needs to step up its practical help and love towards women who feel they cannot raise a child. The M...