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Sara Khan

28/08/2016

BBC Radio Scotland - Sunday Morning, 28/08/2016

Sara Khan talks about Inspire, a human rights organisation empowering Muslim women.

Cathy Macdonald talks to Sara Khan about her commitment to Inspire, a human rights organisation empowering Muslim women and challenging extremism.

Cathy talks to Sara Khan about her commitment to Inspire, a human rights organisation empowering Muslim women and challenging extremism. 

James Williams, also known as Jim the Trim, is a barber who with his charity, Autism Barbers Assemble, brings together barbers who work with children with autism. Reporter Anna Magnusson met Jim to find out more. 

Out of this world, amazing, awesome, super awesome!! Have we become a society obsessed with bigger, better, shinier and what is this pursuit of perfection or extraordinariness doing to us - and why are we rejecting what most of us are, just average? Cathy is joined by Katie Grant, author and columnist, and Reverend Philip Blackledge, the Rector of Holy Trinity Melrose.

With the canonization of Mother Teresa fast approaching, broadcaster Colin McKay takes a look at her life and legacy. Cathy talks to Katie Grant about the significance of saints in modern times. 

The poet Robert Crawford has seen a 10 year ambition realised with the publication of a new anthology of poetry and prose dedicated to Iona. He chats to Cathy about why the island continues to inspire.

Although suicide affects many families, it's still an issue that is largely taboo. And trying to break that taboo is an initiative called SOS Silence of Suicide, founded by the lawyer Michael Mansfield, and his partner Yvette Greenway, after Michael lost his daughter to suicide.

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