Episodes

  • Reflections 14.09.2025 Torch Exhibitions

    Reflections 14.09.2025 Torch Exhibitions
    Sep 14 2025
    This week we’ll hear from Torch Churches Partnership Coordinator Vicki Bryson about some of the events Torch has participated in recently. This episode also features a devotion by Zoe Byron, Torch’s head of comms, which was first featured on Pure 24 7 breakfast bites. To contact Torch Trust with any comments or feedback, call 01858 438260 […]
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Reflections Podcast 07.09.2025 Sight Loss Sunday.

    Reflections Podcast 07.09.2025 Sight Loss Sunday.
    Sep 7 2025
    Sight Loss Sunday is an annual event in which Torch is encouraging churches to focus on blind and partially sighted people and their gifts and presence in church life. This year’s Sight Loss Sunday takes place 12 October. In this episode, we first speak to Torch CEO Sarah Dawkins about how her awareness has evolved […]
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Reflections Podcast 31.08.2025 Author Tracy Williamson

    Reflections Podcast 31.08.2025 Author Tracy Williamson
    Aug 31 2025
    This week, Marilyn chats with author and friend Tracy Williamson about her book ‘Unashamed’, which is a powerful exploration of how we can experience restoration from life’s hurts with God’s help. Tracey’s book is also available from Torch in a variety of formats for people wishing to find out more. To contact Torch Trust with […]
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    13 mins
  • Reflections Podcast 24.08.2025 In Conversation With Linn Davies

    Reflections Podcast 24.08.2025 In Conversation With Linn Davies
    Aug 24 2025
    This week Marilyn Baker sits down to talk to Reflections producer Linn Davies-who is a trained journalist, Afrobeats singer and writer. Linn talks about working for the BBC, growing an online platform, writing thrillers and the inspiration behind the featured songs. To contact Torch Trust with any comments or feedback, call 01858 438260 email info@torchtrust.org or […]
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Reflections Podcast 17.08.2025 Resources Curator Janette Sturgis

    Reflections Podcast 17.08.2025 Resources Curator Janette Sturgis
    Aug 17 2025
    Accessible Christian literature remains at the heart of Torch’s mission. And this week we meet the new resources curator, Janette Sturgis, whose working on expanding our library and bookshop offerings. She talks about her love of working in retail, her evolving understanding of disabilities, and shares details about some new discipleship books which she’s particularly […]
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  • Reflections Podcast 10.08.2025 New Torch Trustee Philip Rice

    Reflections Podcast 10.08.2025 New Torch Trustee Philip Rice
    Aug 10 2025
    This week we sit down to a conversation with Torch’s newest trustee Philip Rice. He talks about his love of the Torch Holidays and his passion to bring children and young people to torch-making the client base more age diverse. To contact Torch Trust with any comments or feedback, call 01858 438260 email info@torchtrust.org or visit […]
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  • Reflections 03.08.2025 Torch Chaplaincy Service

    Reflections 03.08.2025 Torch Chaplaincy Service
    Aug 3 2025
    In this episode we talk to Sarah Brookman, the visionary behind the new Torch Chaplaincy telephone service, which aims to support people going through life changes relating to sight loss. We also hear from Heinrich Barth, one of the chaplaincy volunteers who lost his sight following an brain aneurism in 2019. The conversation with Heinrich […]
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  • Reflections Podcast 27.07.2025 Carl Beech

    Reflections Podcast 27.07.2025 Carl Beech
    Jul 27 2025
    This week, Christian Vision For Men’s Carl Beech chats to us about living with Early Onset Parkinson’s, and shares how his struggle to live with the disease turned into a remarkable innovation to help battle his Parkinson’s symptoms. Carl demonstrates the device he’s developed during the programme, which when he turns it on demonstrates just how […]
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    23 mins