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This superb memoir of a gay working-class boy from Manchester exploring how to reconcile his sexuality with his Catholicism is all the more powerful because of his deep knowledge of and commitment to his faith. Spanning the late 1960s to the present day, Mark Dowd's Queer and Catholic chronicles a changing attitude to same-sex attraction over more than half a century and is packed with stories in turn funny, deeply moving and spiritually insightful.

What if embracing our inner-rebel is the only way to save the world? That’s the question entrepreneur and environmentalist Mark Dowds is asking at the beginning of this next 10-year journey — which is the most important decade our planet has ever faced. This podcast is a way to document what he's learning along the way and share rare conversations with incredible people making the world a better place by challenging the status quo. Subscribe for new episodes every other Wednesday.