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Special - ’In Christ Alone’ writer Keith Getty on being nominated for a Grammy Award

4 Feb 2023
23:10

The modern day hymn writer Keith Getty is best known for penning 'In Christ Alone' alongside Stuart Townend. Now Keith, together with his wife Kristen, has been nominated for a Grammy award for their lockdown album Confessio - Irish American Roots. I...

Leadership special: Tim Gough on the youth crisis in the UK church

3 Feb 2023
26:23

Andy Peck talks to Tim Gough, who is the Pioneer Director for YFC Wales and the author of Rebooted: Reclaiming Youth Ministry for the Long Haul. They talk about how the decline in young people took place despite a rise in paid youthworkers and what w...

Francis Chan: Why I quit my megachurch and started again

27 Jan 2023
59:57

Francis Chan left his thriving US megachurch, turned his back on the fame that ministry had brought him and moved his family to a developing country. He tells Sam Hailes the full story.  This interview was first broadcast and published in 2019.  You...

RT Kendall: Bringing the Word and the Spirit together

20 Jan 2023
52:05

RT Kendall doesn’t look like a heretic. He doesn’t sound like one either. But in the mid 80s he almost lost his job leading one of London’s most famous churches when he was accused of antinomianism: the claim that Christians are not obliged to follow...

Leadership special: Yetunde Hoffman on bringing love into business

18 Jan 2023
25:44

Andy Peck talks to Yetunde Hofmann, who has been involved in leadership for over 25 years in the corporate world and now has a portfolio career which includes leading an international leadership and change consulting practice and organisation that su...

Dr Jack Graham: The pastor of one of America’s largest churches

13 Jan 2023
01:06:32

Jack Graham never set out to build a megachurch – he doesn’t even like the term. Nevertheless, under his watch, Prestonwood Baptist Church has grown to a membership of 45,000 – becoming one of the biggest congregations in America – since Graham becam...

Ram Gidoomal: How a wealthy Hindu businessman met Jesus in a London pub

6 Jan 2023
53:16

For reasons that were never fully explained to him, Ram Gidoomal CBE and his family were forced to flee their home in Kenya when he was just 16 years old. Having previously left India during the 1947 partition, they said goodbye to the life of weal.....

Leadership special: Will Van Der Hart on sustaining yourself in 2023

4 Jan 2023
27:15

Sometimes the demands of leadership can overwhelm us. In this interview, mental health specialist Will Van Der Hart explains how Christians can build resilience and keep going when times are tough. This interview was conducted by Andy Peck, Premier's...

Leadership special: Jen Baker on how to reach your destiny in 2023

28 Dec 2022
27:29

Premier's resident leadership expert interviewer Andy Peck has been having conversations with preachers and pastors for the past 17 years. This week, Andy talks with Jen Baker who moved from Michigan in the USA to the UK in an Abraham style call wher...

Rev Pat Allerton: The ’portable priest’ who took prayer to the streets in lockdown

22 Dec 2022
50:28

The vicar of St Peter's Notting Hill, London first rose to public attention during lockdown, when he began cycling around his parish leading simple street corner services consisting of just a hymn and a prayer. Rev Pat Allerton now has thousands of f...

Who would you like to hear interviewed in 2023?

21 Dec 2022
02:23

As the year draws to a close, our presenter and producer Sam Hailes says thank you for joining us in 2022, and asks - who would you like to hear being interviewed next year? Send your requests to sam.hailes@premier.org.uk Have a merry Christmas and a...

Julie Roys: The investigative reporter uncovering scandal in the church

15 Dec 2022
29:56

Julie Roys has been described as a gossipmonger, an apostate and a liar. Such labels would cut most Christians deep, but not Roys. The 57-year-old Chicago-based journalist wears unfounded criticism as “a badge of honour” – she even has a mug printed...

Leadership special: Tim Alford on reimagining youthwork

14 Dec 2022
27:20

Premier's resident leadership expert interviewer Andy Peck has been having conversations with preachers and pastors for the past 17 years. This week, Andy Peck chats with Tim Alford, the National Director of LIMITLESS, the youth and children's moveme...

Domestic abuse survivor Autumn Miles on the moment God broke in

8 Dec 2022
53:16

Autumn Miles was trapped in an abusive relationship, until a powerful encounter with God during the depth of her despair set her on a path to freedom. She tells Premier Christianity's Sam Hailes the full story.    You can also read this story on pre...

Leadership special: David Instone-Brewer mythbusts the Nativity

7 Dec 2022
27:50

Have you realised that the Nativity plays in many local churches actually have little to do with the birth of Jesus as depicted in the Gospels? In this interview with Premier's resident leadership expert Andy Peck, Rev Dr David Instone-Brewer Researc...