
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


In the first of a new series of Beyond Belief, Ernie Rea is joined by three beekeepers.
Bees have been important to humans for thousands of years. Honey was found in Tutankhamun’s tomb, Aristotle and Virgil wrote about beekeeping and bees and honey get an honourable mention in the scriptures of many religions. There is a whole surah (chapter) in the Qu’ran called ‘The Bee’ ('An-nahl') and the Old Testament refers to Israel as ‘a land of milk and honey’. Bees are vital to our world ecology and they pollinate a third of our crops but their numbers are in decline.
To discuss the role of bees and honey in different religious traditions, Ernie is joined by three urban beekeepers: Salma Attan looks after her bees on the roof of the East London Mosque, Rabbi Kelley Gludt tends a hive in Baltimore, Maryland and Adrian Rhodes was the 'Canon Apiarist' at Manchester Cathedral.
Producer: Helen Lee
By BBC Radio 44.4
9797 ratings
In the first of a new series of Beyond Belief, Ernie Rea is joined by three beekeepers.
Bees have been important to humans for thousands of years. Honey was found in Tutankhamun’s tomb, Aristotle and Virgil wrote about beekeeping and bees and honey get an honourable mention in the scriptures of many religions. There is a whole surah (chapter) in the Qu’ran called ‘The Bee’ ('An-nahl') and the Old Testament refers to Israel as ‘a land of milk and honey’. Bees are vital to our world ecology and they pollinate a third of our crops but their numbers are in decline.
To discuss the role of bees and honey in different religious traditions, Ernie is joined by three urban beekeepers: Salma Attan looks after her bees on the roof of the East London Mosque, Rabbi Kelley Gludt tends a hive in Baltimore, Maryland and Adrian Rhodes was the 'Canon Apiarist' at Manchester Cathedral.
Producer: Helen Lee

7,747 Listeners

888 Listeners

1,047 Listeners

5,511 Listeners

1,793 Listeners

970 Listeners

1,872 Listeners

611 Listeners

285 Listeners

300 Listeners

1,846 Listeners

1,084 Listeners

2,050 Listeners

97 Listeners

55 Listeners

238 Listeners

63 Listeners

59 Listeners

62 Listeners

3,217 Listeners

1,071 Listeners

763 Listeners

1,035 Listeners

49 Listeners