Archives
In print & online
Articles, Talks, TV & Radio
Marie-Elsa regularly writes for a variety of publications and joins discussions on television, podcasts, and radio.
Articles
Interview about creativity and writing – Monk
Catherine Coldstream in conversation with writer, priest, and broadcaster, Marie-Elsa Bragg
Ascension Day Essays BBC Radio 4
Marie-Elsa wrote 4 essays for BBC Radio 4 on the Ascension.
Sleeping Letters review Daily Mail
Sleeping Letters reviewed a list of ‘When life is tough, pick up a poem.’
Talks
RAY OF GOD FESTIVAL 2020
Marie-Elsa will be talking with other women at this festival about the Divine Feminine.
CARTHORSE ORCHESTRA 31 October full moon and Halloween…
Marie-Elsa will be talking with Fiona Sampson and Gary Lachman about Mary Shelly and the bid to create life, even become God. She will be focussing on the idea of resurrection and what the Theology of the time might have been exploring as the creative ‘divine spark’.
DARTINGTON LITERARY FESTIVAL 10 JULY 2020
TV & Video
UEA Literary festival interview with Rowan Williams
Below is an interview I conducted with Rowan Williams for his new book 'On Augustine', at the UEA Literary festival in April 2016.
Interfaith Interviews- Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Christian Women
An important focus for Marie-Elsa is the role of women in Orthodox religions – working especially on interfaith relations and projects focusing on domestic violence.
Radio
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY – UNVEILING MASKS IN BELARUS -RADIO 4
This Thought For The day was about a particular moment in time and the hope it could bring. It was not looking at how the unmasking of policemen could then unfold in both positive and negative ways.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY – INDIGENOUS CULTURES -RADIO 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08rdx4s..
RADIO CUMBRIA FOR SUICIDE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT
Marie-Elsa is the new patron of Suicide Bereavement Support, a cumbrian charity for local people with local groups.
Additional Archives
RADIO 4 – A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF ESSAYS, THOUGHT FOR THE DAY AND INTERVIEWS
"https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/search?q=marie-elsa+bragg":https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/search?q=marie-elsa+bragg
Sleeping Letters
Marie-Elsa's new book Sleeping letters was written on silent retreat. In this environment and companioned by the ritual of the Eucharist and monastic hours of silence, she was able to face the family tragedy of the death of her mother when she was only six years old....
Moon Meditations – interfaith hour of silence and contemplation 30 Dec, 28 Jan 27 Feb
These meditations are with the recent conference on the divine feminine in mind and planned for the full moon.
Christmas Card by TOAST
TOAST company have great podcasts and a magazine. They tend to look for artisans and explore their craft or thoughts.
Sleeping Letters Review TLS October 2020
Marie-Elsa Roche Bragg is an ordained Anglican priest and this profoundly moving memoir, in poetry and prose, was written during two silent retreats in an unspecified mountain region. Beautifully rendered childhood memories feature in a series of letters to her father and late mother, who took her own life when the author was six years old.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY – UNVEILING MASKS IN BELARUS -RADIO 4
This Thought For The day was about a particular moment in time and the hope it could bring. It was not looking at how the unmasking of policemen could then unfold in both positive and negative ways.