PODCASTS AND RADIO

The Hearts in Search of God project has featured in several podcasts and on national and local radio.

Here are a selection.  

By Phil McCarthy October 6, 2025
In this special episode of the All Kinds of Catholic podcast Theresa Alessandro returns to Padley Chapel on the St Mark's Way of the Pilgrimage of Hope.
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By Phil McCarthy September 21, 2025
On the final day of the Pilgrimage of Hope Bishop Patrick McKinney walked with pilgrims and reflected on his experience and on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
By Rowan Morton-Gledhill September 18, 2025
The St Mark's Way was the northern Way of the Pilgrimage of Hope. Rowan Morton-Gledhill wrote a blog and recorded a piece for BBC Radio Leeds.
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By Phil McCarthy September 17, 2025
In this special edition of the All Knds of Catholic podcast Theresa Alessandro speaks with pilgrims walking the Pilgrimage of Hope.
By Phil McCarthy August 15, 2025
A podcast on the Pilgrimage of Hope from Catholic News.
By Phil McCarthy June 3, 2025
In this podcast Dr Heather Warfield and I discuss walking pilgrimage through the First World War battlefields and visiting the cemeteries today.
By Phil McCarthy October 23, 2024
At the start of the Shrewsbury Pilgrim Way, Hearts in Search of God project lead Phil McCarthy was interviewed by Theresa Alessandro for her All Kinds of Catholic podcast.
By Phil McCarthy July 20, 2024
I was delighted to be invited to take part in this edition of BBC Radio 4's Beyond Belief on why we walk. Listen here.
By Phil McCarthy April 3, 2024
View the recording of the recent Pilgrims to Rome Conference!
By Phil McCarthy August 8, 2023
After a long (and rather wet) day walking the Way of Our Lady of the Valleys Pilgrim Way in the Archdiocese of Cardiff I was pleased to record this podcast with James Abbot of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England & Wales for Catholic News. We discuss the Hearts in Search of God project and the re-establishment of walking pilgrimage in our nations. Phil McCarthy