Rupert Shortt: The Hardest Problem

<div>My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Rupert Shortt, whose stimulating new book <em>The Hardest Problem</em> addresses one of the oldest difficulties in theology: "the problem of evil". Is this something the religious and the secular can even talk meaningfully about? What's the great challenge Dostoevsky throws up? And what did Augustine get right that Richard Dawkins gets wrong? </div>