29/06/2014
Award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo joins Cathy to talk about his life and career and his latest project, editing the war anthology Only Remembered.
Master story teller and one of Britain's best loved children's writers Michael Morpurgo keeps Cathy company for the first hour. The award winning author discusses his life, his long and hugely successful career, and his latest project, editing the anthology Only Remembered which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
With emerging stories of more young British Muslims going to fight with radical Islamist groups in the Middle East, Cathy speaks to Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, at Edinburgh University.
We take a very noisy trip to St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh to meet Austrian bikers on a rather unusual 'Holy Tour'!
Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, has been named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The media tycoon shares her new rules for living.
Bishop Kevin Dowling, from the diocese of Rustenburg, in South Africa has been at the forefront of the Catholic Church's response to the HIV/Aids pandemic. He tells Cathy about his work, his faith and the challenges he's faced inside and outside of the Church.
Plus in the run up to the Commonwealth Games we get another Poetry Postcard - this time from Nauru; Lyn Detabene brings us "Proudly She Sways Her True Colour".
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Bikers On A "Holy Tour"
Rev Philip Blackledge joined some bikers at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh where the bikes and the bikers were being blessed on their 鈥榟oly tour鈥�.
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- Sun 29 Jun 2014 07:05成人快手 Radio Scotland