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It's film review day and Bond is back! Janice discusses Spectre

25/10/2015

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Historian and classicist Professor Mary Beard talks to Cathy Macdonald.

Historian and classicist Professor Mary Beard talks to Cathy Macdonald about her passion for history, gender equality and much more.

She's Britain's best known historian and classicist, with the power to bring ancient Rome to life. Professor Mary Beard delves into her passion for history, gender equality, and much more with Cathy MacDonald.

Opera singer, Andrea Baker, on the life of influential abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass, and his time in Scotland.

With 1 in 5 children and young people in Scotland said to be living in poverty, Elaine Downie from the Poverty Truth Commission, Dr John McKendrick of Glasgow Caledonian University, and Amy Hutton who works for Cyrenians in Scotland, discuss the impact and repercussions of poverty on this generation. We also hear from Georgina Shields, a young commissioner with the Poverty Truth Commission, to find out what young people themselves think about this growing problem.

Gulwali Passarlay was 12 when he left Afghanistan. He spent the following year in grave danger trying to make his way to safety. He documents his astonishing journey, involving treacherous mountain and sea crossings, jumping from a fast-moving train, and sleeping in animal pens, in his new book 'The Lightless Sky'.

With the annual Scottish International Storytelling festival kicking off, storyteller Marion Kelly, Dima al Mekdad of the Talking Syria Project, and Gulwali Passarlay, explore how the age old tradition of storytelling is intrinsic to who we are as humans, helping us heal as individuals, and also as communities.

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