21/10/2018
Two hours of music and conversation with a faith and ethical perspective with Richard Holloway. Taking the week's events to ask what they say about our values and beliefs.
Richard talks to writer and mental health campaigner Matt Haig, at an Edinburgh International Book Festival event earlier this year which was specially recorded for the Sunday Morning programme.
Louise Smith has experienced depression for many years but found her own way through it by using mindfulness. She now teaches it in primary schools and joins Richard and GP Jane Essex to talk about the various approaches to mental health.
In 1980 in a church in El Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot dead. Last Sunday, Romero – a hero to his people, and a dangerous radical to the government - was declared a saint. Alistair Dutton, the Chief Executive of the charity SCIAF and Dr Sara Parvis, Senior Lecturer in Christian History at Edinburgh University, explore what it is to be a saint in the modern world.
During Black History Month we’ve been hearing from Edinburgh-based mezzo soprano Andrea Baker, who’s been in Alabama. In her final report she hears about a new hi-tech museum in Montgomery which focuses on slavery, lynching and mass incarceration.
In 2014 the first cases of Ebola were reported in an impoverished area of Sierra Leone. As the disease spread, schools were closed and even basic human contact was discouraged. Musician and storyteller Usifu Jalloh explains how he uses his stories and songs to equip children with lifesaving information, and the radio project he helped develop to encourage children to share their experiences.
Heard the one about the snail, a bottle of ginger beer and the Gospel according to Luke? 90 years ago this bizarre combination led to the establishment of the modern law of negligence. Andrew Tickell, law lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University and the Reverend Diana Hall, a former litigation lawyer explain more.
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