Speaking of climate change and the problems facing the world, Prince Charles was asked by his son, the guest editor on the Today programme, who, of all the people he'd met this year, had shone out.
Prince Harry started with the question: "You've met thousands of people this year, is there one person that's really stood out above the rest for you?"
The Duke of Edinburgh replied: "I meet endlessly marvellous people who are doing fantastic things. One of the people that did really stand out for me was a remarkable, youngish Iraqi Christian priest".
He continued to say that the man "told me horrifying story of how he'd been captured by Daesh...and tortured and treated abominably and threatened with being beheaded at every moment of the day or night".
He added: "Finally, somehow he escaped or somehow got away, or whatever, but he was telling me despite all this horror that he went through, he could still find it in his heart to forgive them."
"And this was the thing that I could not get over, you know.
"How remarkable that sort of person is and there are some wonderful people like that around the world on whom we really depend. I think we are going to have some sort of solution to all these horrifying situations."
Earlier this month, Prince Charles visited St Barnabas Church in London and urged Christians in the UK not to take for granted the freedom to practice their faith.
He pointed to extreme persecution against believers in the Middle East.
