
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Who are you loyal to? Your family, partner, employer? Why? Mike Williams talks to people whose loyalty has been challenged – from the wife of an unfaithful husband, to a doctor who blew the whistle on her employers. Are we ultimately only really loyal to ourselves?
A Catholic priest argues that it is better to be committed to values than loyal to superiors. Mike also hears how loyalty can be created to get people to kill – such as in the military.
(Photo: A loyal dog looks up to his master. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
By BBC World Service4.6
182182 ratings
Who are you loyal to? Your family, partner, employer? Why? Mike Williams talks to people whose loyalty has been challenged – from the wife of an unfaithful husband, to a doctor who blew the whistle on her employers. Are we ultimately only really loyal to ourselves?
A Catholic priest argues that it is better to be committed to values than loyal to superiors. Mike also hears how loyalty can be created to get people to kill – such as in the military.
(Photo: A loyal dog looks up to his master. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

78,393 Listeners

11,019 Listeners

26,225 Listeners

7,585 Listeners

374 Listeners

889 Listeners

1,049 Listeners

5,454 Listeners

1,794 Listeners

1,751 Listeners

1,045 Listeners

2,085 Listeners

601 Listeners

973 Listeners

848 Listeners

4,163 Listeners

3,188 Listeners

715 Listeners

15,271 Listeners

2,308 Listeners

741 Listeners