This is the last of eight podcasts from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas.
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In this podcast we ask: do we need a new morality for the 21st century? Do the changing issues the world is confronting - from climate change to the war on terror - require a different moral code?
On the panel is Sheikh Michael Mumisa, a highly respected Muslim academic and theologian. He is the author of a number of studies including Islamic Law: Theory and Interpretation.
David Ford is the regius professor of divinity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Selwyn College. He is also acting director of the Cambridge inter-faith programme.
Simon Blackburn, professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Until recently he was distinguished professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
And Dr Ed Kessler, director, Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths; executive director, centre for the study of Jewish-Christian relations and CMJR fellow at St Edmund's College.
