The reader is offered the text of two cycles of conversations that Metropolitan Anthony led in the religious broadcasts of the BBC Russian service in 1986-88 and 1990-91. Even before the publications of recent years, Metropolitan Anthony was known in our country | his infrequent visits were events in the religious life of Moscow | meeting with him became a turning point in life for many. His word is modern without "modernism", deeply rooted in the patristic tradition - without stylization of piety| it is convincing in its merciless simplicity and integrity. This is the speech of a person whose word and thought do not diverge from feeling and life.