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Catalyst TV Series - Coming to a TV Near You!

A new TV series from the makers of EDGES is about to hit TV screens over the next few months.

Catalyst with Mal Fletcher, focuses on significant leaders in various fields who are shaping the future and impacting culture, through their work, activism and campaigning.

Guests featured in these very honest and open interviews include Dr. Tony Campolo, Dr. Patrick Dixon, Dr. Tom Sine, Steve Chalke MBE, Winkie Pratney & Harvey Thomas CBE.

Talks with broadcast partners are advancing: watch for it!

A short clip from one of the shows is featured below...

Sample: Catalyst with Mal Fletcher
Note: Actual programme is in 16:9 widescreen, with different graphics.

Who Is The Stig - FNT
While most of us may day-dream about fame, we know we'll likely never achieve it,' write Mal Fletcher, in his first piece for a popular British web feature called Friday Night Theology (FNT).

Mal continues: 'We live our lives in what Clive James has, in his inimitable style, called a 'blaze of obscurity'. Yet is that such a bad thing? Certainly for a Christian, obscurity is more an opportunity than an enemy.'

Published by the Evangelical Alliance, UK, FNT is read by thousands of people across the UK every week; it's also sent to 3500 by subscribers by direct email.

The FNT site outlines the aims this way: 'Many of us spend our weekends talking about the events of the week with friends and family who aren't Christians. Friday Night Theology is a tool that you can use to enable Jesus to join in the conversation. Our underlying premise is that Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and so whatever has arisen during the week in the world of politics, media, sport or culture, Jesus has something to say.'

To read Mal's full piece and access many others, click here, or visit http://www.eauk.org/fnt.

Digital Media & Multi-Tasking - BBC Breakfast VID
A recent British government report says that people, especially the young, are using digital media on average 5 hours a day - but squeezing that into 2 hours through multi-tasking.

Is this an exciting new way to learn and get things done, or a recipe for mind-numbing distraction and lower productivity?

Mal Fletcher discusses the issues in this segment with the BBC Breakfast TV team. BBC Breakfast is British TV's highest rating morning news programme, known and loved by people across the nation.

Mal Fletcher on BBC Breakfast

Check out all the new video materials at www.youtube.com/malfletcher.

Is Teen Music Soft Porn?

In an age of ubiquitous digital media and 24/7 celebrity culture, are we over-sexualising both the lyrics and the imagery surrounding teen music - especially music for young teens and children?

Are our children over-exposed to graphic sexual themes, or are things much the same as they ever were when it comes to teen music?

Mal Fletcher, social commentator, discusses in this insightful and impacting interview with BBC Radio Oxford.

Click here to download/stream.

Old Age Care - Are Your Future Proof?
Within 20 years, 25% of Britain's population will have reached the retirement age of 65 years.

Are you future-proofing yourself, preparing for your retirement? What changes are needed to the way we see old age? How can we approach old age with a better mindset and release the elderly to make their unique contribution to our society?

In advance of a special BBC Panorama programme on ageing recently, social commentator Mal Fletcher discussed these issues with BBC Radio.

To stream/download, click here.